Quotes of Martin Dugard

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“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
“deeds,” Stanley remembered later.” ― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
“milquetoast” ― Martin Dugard, The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery
“commonality can most easily be seen in the seven common traits that all explorers possessed: curiosity, hope, passion, courage, independence, self-discipline, and perseverance. Explorers” ― Martin Dugard, The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
“The Grants will make their train. Julia is so eager to leave town that she has chosen the local, which takes thirteen long hours to reach Burlington. The faster option would be the seven-thirty express in the morning, but that would mean a night at the theater with the daft and unbalanced Mary Lincoln. Julia Grant's mind is made up. What Ulysses S. Grant does not know is that he will be returning to Washington by the same train within twenty-four hours.” ― Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
“voices in the study of positive psychology, framed the traits as hope, wisdom, creativity, future-mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance. V. Paraphrased from a speech given by Bruce Springsteen” ― Martin Dugard, The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
“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
“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
“Nyassa” ― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
“Just the hill and me. Just the challenge and me. Just my fears an me. Bring it on.” ― 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
“Tanganyika,” ― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
“Rovuma” ― Martin Dugard, Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
“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
“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
“that overwhelming desire to find a way to succeed, if only to be spared public humiliation.” ― 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
“would have made for a growing excitement.” ― Martin Dugard, The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
“America is a great country, but like every other nation on earth, it is influenced by evil. John Wilkes Booth epitomizes the evil that can harm us, even as President Abraham Lincoln represents the good that can make us stronger.” ― Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
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Martin Dugard is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of the Taking Series — including Taking Berlin (2022) and Taking Paris (2021).Book Two in the Taking series is titled Taking Berlin, covering the final nine months of World War II in Europe. Taking Ber…

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