FastSaying

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

Isabella Bird

Isabella Bird

BuyDependsExperienceFailureHisIdiosyncrasiesMainlyMustOwnPersonalSuccessTraveller

Related Quotes

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.
— Isabella Bird
AlongBorneBridges
The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.
— Isabella Bird
AwayBanksBuildings
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
— William J. H. Boetcker
BelieveDependsMainly
I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.
— Isabella Bird
AmericanAmountAttained
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
— Robert Baden-Powell
BoyDependsExample