18 quotes
""I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.""
- Herman Melville
Courage
"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
- Herman Melville
Adversity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!"
- Herman Melville
Aspirations
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
- Herman Melville
Ambition
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."
- Herman Melville
Positivity
"No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses."
- Herman Melville
Insight
"It is not down in any map, true places never are."
- Herman Melville
Change
"It’s better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Failure
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness."
- Herman Melville
Failure
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed at imitation."
- Herman Melville
Originality
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation"
- Herman Melville
Originality
"Call me Ishmael."
- Herman Melville
Independence
"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
- Herman Melville
Philosophy
"The sun comes out, a golden huzzar, from his tent, flashing his helm on the world."
- Herman Melville
Nature
"A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing."
- Herman Melville
Well-being
"There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals."
- Herman Melville
Morality