The Traveler's Summit Quotes

“A nation that has forgotten the quality of leadership it took to make a civilization great in the past is not likely to insist on greatness in its leaders today.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

“It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind allows itself to be governed.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

“It was easier to fall asleep in the chair and just wake up in the morning.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

“My life was chosen to bring hope to my people. Hope is basic, like bread or water -- one cannot live without it, at least not for long.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

“Our lives may be swayed by gales of adversity, we may be drowning in the floodwaters of helplessness, but with strong hope we continue the search to find a way when all evidence shouts, 'Quit.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

“People and nations behave wisely only when they have exhausted all the other alternatives.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

“Well," Winston said, "a few of the others are proclaiming 'faith' to be the only answer. Considering our present location, I considered it particularly bold of Mark Twain to loudly refer to their assertion as brownnosing.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

“So to make sure we don't get off on that foot, courage is resistance to fear or mastery of it, but it is not the absence of fear.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

“Courage is not merely one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at its testing point.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

“But if our mornings are faced with courage and wisdom, the past need not be lived again.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift

“What I mean is that our subconscious works on whatever problem we give it to solve. Therefore, if one asks bad questions, one's mind descends to a state in which we work to furnish bad answers. Bad questions feed the black dog because they prompt negative thoughts. Then, of course, the black dog begins to feed on us.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler's Gift