Richard E. Byrd
Richard E. Byrd
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USNwas an American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. Byrd claimed...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth25 October 1888
CountryUnited States of America
Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace.
No woman has ever stepped on Little America and we have found it to be the most silent and peaceful place in the world.
What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.
Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.
A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.
At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.
Give wind and tide a chance to change.
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.
Progress grows out of motion.
Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.