Martin Dugard > Quotes

“To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.”
― Martin Dugard, To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking on a 5-K Makes You a Better Person and the World a Better Place

“To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.”
― Martin Dugard

“Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.”
― Martin Dugard, The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

“I shall look into your faces, And listen to what you say, And be very often near you, When you think I’m far away.”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures Of Stanley And Livingstone

“Stanley's exploration pedigree reached its fruition in November of 1872. He was paid $10,000 to write a book about his African travels. How I Found Livingstone answered all Stanley's critics (to the RGS's earlier proclamation that “Livingstone was in clover,” he responded”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

“mosquito bite in Africa could be equated to Russian Roulette. There are three thousand different types of mosquito, yet only one carries malaria. There are one hundred and fifty-six strains of malaria injected by that one breed of mosquito, yet only four cause malaria in humans. Of those four strains, only one leads to death. And while these odds sound favorable, malaria has hovered near epidemic levels in Africa for millennia.”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

“Presenting the world a stiff upper lip was not enough anymore. Now Speke needed to endure—to persevere. Or, as Nile duel moderator David Livingstone liked to say, Speke would need to “Bash on, regardless.”
― Martin Dugard, The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

“If we want to score a victory, we must actively make use of lies. They have to be big. The bigger the lies the quicker people will believe them,” Adolf Hitler stated, coining the term “Big Lie.” Hitler used the Big Lie to spread untruths about Germany’s Jewish population. Dictator Joseph Stalin didn’t much like Hitler, but he appropriated the Big Lie to explain purges of Soviet citizens. In America, almost a century later, the Big Lie is now woven into the fabric of daily political discourse.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“deeds,” Stanley remembered later.”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

“What a punishment it would be to have no object or aim in life.”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

“Maurice Herzog, who along with fellow Frenchman Louis Lachenal became the first men to summit Nepal’s 26,545-foot Annapurna in 1950, wrote beautifully about the strange addiction of shared misery. “Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in the face of death should remain fraternally united through life.”
― Martin Dugard, The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

“The missionaries ate the local food. Sometimes, as in the case of one New Zealand tribe whose favorite recipe called for Anglicans, the locals ate the missionaries.”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

“No phantom of the future cast a shadow upon our sunny path,”
― Martin Dugard, The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

“The creepers twined up and around the great tree trunks so tightly that even dead trees remained upright, supported by the same parasitical vines that had killed them.”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

“Hitler reserves his greatest hatred for all things Jewish”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“pride”
― Martin Dugard, Taking Midway: Naval Warfare, Secret Codes, and the Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II

“Despite the presence of the prime minister”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“The speech follows the same pattern Churchill uses in Parliament”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Nyassa”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

“1965. Waller, Horace. The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 Until His Death. London, 1874. Wasserman, Jacob. Bula Matari. New York, 1933. White, Andrea. Joseph Conrad and the”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

“The British people know now they are fighting for their existence,” writes the Standard. “Either we awaken every energy in our being or this soil of England will be drenched by blood and unending tears.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Churchill pointedly refuses to admit the reality that England has its back against the wall and is almost certain to lose its empire and become a Nazi island.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Only total and complete understanding is adequate,” Lewis tells him with no trace of sympathy. “You must be able to find your way about the cockpit layout blindfolded.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Rovuma”
― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

“deck is wooden—tight-grained”
― Martin Dugard, Taking Midway: Naval Warfare, Secret Codes, and the Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II

“Good night,” Murrow says”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“but Great War battle wagons retrofitted with a flight deck.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“two-man, open-”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“You may rely on me to resist to the utmost any pressure that may be exercised by the War Cabinet to send more fighters,” Dowding is informed by his commanding officer”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

“Churchill now has nothing but respect for this anachronistic genius.”
― Martin Dugard, Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization