Daniel Boone Quotes:

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

Topics: Inspirational, Confused, Confusion, Disorientation, Lost And Confused

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Topics: Happiness, Horse, Laughter, Good Horse, Good Wife

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

source: - Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.7, Applewood Books

Topics: Determination, Home, Kentucky

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

source: - Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.22, Applewood Books

Topics: Country, Powerful, Hero

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

Topics: Kentucky, Heaven, Kind

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

source: - "The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer". Book by John Mack Faragher, p. 301, 1993.

Topics: Way, Fortune

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Topics: War, Ambition, Land, Insatiable

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

Topics: Taken, Adventure, Men

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

source: - Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.3, Applewood Books

Topics: Delight, Wonder, Fund

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

source: - Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.5, Applewood Books

Topics: Country, Diversity, One Day

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

source: - Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.4, Applewood Books

Topics: Philosophy, Believe, Men, Felicity

I'm going now. My time has come.

Topics: Last Words

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.

Topics: Country, Memorable, Adventure

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Topics: Men, Giving, Interesting

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

source: - William Henry BOGART, Daniel BOONE (1856). “Daniel Boone, and the Hunters of Kentucky. (Seventh thousand.) [With plates.]”, p.51

Topics: Powerful, Men, Interesting

Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.

source: - Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.1, Applewood Books

Topics: Country, War, Kentucky, Emigration

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

Topics: Confused, Three, Woods, Lost In The Woods

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

Topics: Lightning, Doe, Strikes

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.

Topics: Powerful, Selfish, Men

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

source: - Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.6, Applewood Books

Topics: Danger, Midst, Inconvenience

Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms

Topics: Night, Goal, Storm

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Topics: Cowboy, Danger, Situation

On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.

Topics: Party, Men, July, Fourth

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

Topics: Diversity, Impossible, Melancholy

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Topics: Spring, Blessing, Hands, Descending

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

Topics: Delight, Summit

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Topics: Kentucky, Rivers, Enemy, Forts

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

Topics: Home, Giving, Purpose, Sterling, Parole

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Topics: Country, Men, White

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

Topics: Kentucky, Aggravation, Rivers

No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.

Topics: Determination, Three, Lost

Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

Topics: Men, White, Civilization

The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.

Topics: Jesus, Believe, Littles

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

Topics: Dies

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Topics: Interesting, Spices

Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!

Topics: Peace With God, Made, Knows

I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days.

Topics: Lost, Bewildered