At Blakiston & Company we strive to be more than an outdoor lifestyle company; we aspire to motivate, inspire and encourage the masses to be the best you that you can be. So without further ado, we present to you the "Quote Of The Week"! May it push you to go further in this great life than you ever dreamed of!
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
-Rabindranath Tagore
"If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle."
-William H. McRaven
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
-Henry David Thoreau
"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
-George K. Chesterton
"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
-Helen Garner
"If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm."
-Frank Lane
"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."
-Thomas Carlyle
"Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea."
-Mikhail Lermontov
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."
-Max Muller
"Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."
-John Archibald Wheeler
"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."
-John Archibald Wheeler
"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."
-George Jean Nathan
"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
-Khalil Gibran
"The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that."
-Eartha Kitt
“I think that's what we all want, in the end. To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly. We want to be remembered."
-Mike A. Lancaster
"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
-William Shakespeare
"If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle."
-William H. McRaven
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
-Thomas Aquinas
"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. "
-Theodore Roethke
"We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine."
-Dwight L. Moody
"You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars."
-Kris Kristofferson
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can."
-Abigail Spencer
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
-Andre Gide
"There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to mean horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope."
-Bernard Williams
"The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
-Robert Brault
"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."
-Wilma Rudolph
"Keep your face always towards the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you."
-Walt Whitman
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this."
-Henry David Thoreau
"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all."
-Helen Keller
"Two centuries ago Edward Young said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of our fullest realization; of our ambitions and hopes. This is the day of opportunity."
-Thomas S. Monson
