Rowing the Atlantic Quotes

“When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

“I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn’t.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

“I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

“To live a fulfilling life is an endurance event, and the only way to get to the finish line is to focus on the present, checking from moment to moment that I am still heading in the right direction. The Atlantic taught me that no matter how huge and seemingly impossible the task, anybody can achieve extraordinary things, by simply taking it one stroke at a time.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

“If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing. I hope to use life's challenges as stepping stones to ever greater things.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

“I don’t for a moment think I am any braver or better than anybody else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the strength to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears. Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

“Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

“So I might be over two thousand miles from my next hot meal, cold beer or decent shower, but at least I wasn't strap-hanging in the overcrowded train carriages of London's Waterloo and City Line, crammed into the armpit of a stranger.”
― Roz Savage, Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean