Vikings: 60 Best Ragnar Quotes, Ranked

Tales from the Northern Realms

Vikings: 60 Best Ragnar Quotes, Ranked

First Set of 10
1. Be brave and upright.
2. Warriors fear regret, not death.
3. A single tree makes no forest.
4. Live with courage.
5. Act, or accept.
6. Silence is often wise.
7. Seek respect, not attention.
8. The calm sea does not make skilled sailors.
9. Pain is easier than regret.
10. Wisdom is welcome wherever it comes from.
Second Set of 10
1. A fool is quick to anger.
2. Strength lies in heart, not numbers.
3. Even in fear, there’s opportunity.
4. Not every cloud which darkens the day brings rain.
5. Take risks; if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
6. Gold is little comfort for the kinsman dead.
7. Fate is inexorable.
8. Better to stand than to fall.
9. Hearts can never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
10. Feed your wolf.
Third Set of 10
1. Be your own light in the darkness.
2. Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death.
3. The past is a good place to visit, but not to stay.
4. The brave find a home in every land.
5. A man should have his plans worked out before he enters into great undertakings.
6. In calm water, every ship has a good captain.
7. Who can be wise, amazed, temperate, and furious all at once?
8. Often one’s heart strains both sides of the scale.
9. There is no fire without smoke.
10. He who stands alone falls.
Fourth Set of 10
1. Make a friend of distance.
2. Battle-sweary, never weary.
3. No shame in dying for nothing. That's why most people die.
4. Wealth dies, kinsmen die, you die the same.
5. The day must dawn before one can tell how it will be.
6. Deeds, not words.
7. Only the dead have seen the end of war.
8. Fear is for the enemy.
9. Time is not caught with closed fists.
10. It is better to die with honor than live with shame.
Fifth Set of 10
1. Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.
2. A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
3. Never walk away from home ahead of your axe and sword.
4. The wolf grows up in the woods.
5. Fight your foes in the field, nor be burnt in your house.
6. The unwise man is awake all night and ponders everything over.
7. Hope is the last to abandon the unwise.
8. The high-seat alone would not make you a chief.
9. Age does not make you smarter.
10. The ignorant man thinks he loses if he gives.
Sixth Set of 10
1. There are more things to be thought of by men than money alone.
2. The foolish man thinks he will live forever if he avoids battle.
3. It’s better to feed a single cat than an army of mice.
4. A man without wisdom is like a ship without a sail.
5. Do not scorn a weak cub; it may become a brutal tiger.
6. Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
7. Hard conditions breed hard men.
8. Honor the past, but live for the future.
9. Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
10. Every man dies, not every man really lives.