Quotes About Ranulph Fiennes

#1. There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.

Michael Palin

#2. People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England.

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#3. My love for you will outlast this beach, this ocean, this planet. When judgement comes and Heaven finally falls, I will take you back with me.

Scarlet Blackwell

#4. Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.

Ranulph Fiennes

#5. Don't act like you wouldn't see how many licks it takes to get to the center of his Tootsie Pop.

K. Bromberg

#6. Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#7. There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

Margaret Mahy

#8. We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

Diane Keaton

#9. Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

David Ives

#10. I hate cutting my wrists while shaving

Josh Stern

#11. Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It's through the hardships you endure that you'll gain real strength.

Gail Tsukiyama

#12. That's a remarkable concept: only when individuals can trust the culture or organization will they take personal risks in order to advance that culture or organization as a whole.

Simon Sinek

#13. As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.

Ranulph Fiennes

#14. Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.

Ranulph Fiennes

#15. Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

African Spir

#16. In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.

Xenophanes

#17. The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

Ranulph Fiennes

#18. No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

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#19. There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

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#20. While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

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#21. The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th.
God bless his soul, rest in peace, kid.
It's because of him now at least I know what beef is.

Canibus

#22. I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

Ranulph Fiennes

#23. Oh, he wanted to sleep with her. Actually, he wanted to pull off her clothes with his teeth,

Jill Shalvis

#24. It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.

Ranulph Fiennes