Fridtjof Nansen is once an extraordinary man ever lived. He is a scientist, explorer, humanitarian, and also Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He also an author of some popular book, such as Farthest North, Eskimo Life, and The First Crossing of Greenland. Sometimes his words are frankly, but he’s saying the truth, and it’s inspiring.
Here are 17 most popular Nansen Quotes that may be changing your life forever!
Fridtjof Nansen Quotes
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
– Fridtjof Nansen
I demolish my bridges behind me… then there is no choice but to move forward.
– Fridtjof Nansen
No future, however, can be built on despair, distrust, hatred, and envy.
– Fridtjof Nansen
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
– Fridtjof Nansen
Never stop because you are afraid – you are never so likely to be wrong.
– Fridtjof Nansen
Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently, the conditions of happiness are mine.
– Fridtjof Nansen
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.
– Fridtjof Nansen
Love is life’s snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight – whiter and purer than snow itself.
– Fridtjof Nansen
The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light.
– Fridtjof Nansen
The limits of the unknown had to recede step by step before the ever-increasing yearning after light and knowledge of the human mind
– Fridtjof Nansen
Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue.
– Fridtjof Nansen
If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.
– Fridtjof Nansen
Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.
– Fridtjof Nansen
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention
– Fridtjof Nansen
The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation—at least sometimes.
– Fridtjof Nansen
Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.
– Fridtjof Nansen
