Port Quotes

• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Journey, Wind, Important

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• It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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• If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Men, Wind

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• Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, People, Waiting

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• To reach a port we must set sail

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sailing, Nautical, Sailing And The Sea

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• Happiness always returns to port . . .

  Duong Thu Huong

  Return

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• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

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• The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Ships, Built

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Pilgrimage”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes in life, we reach to a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Ships, Sometimes

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• When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Journey, Long, Time To Leave

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• A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves or storms, or with the whim of the captain. They are tempted to ask, amidst the battles of life, "Is the struggle worth-while?" That attitude lessens the joy of living. They who say that there is no purpose in life are not unhappy, but become dangerous to themselves and others, for they have no safe guide for their actions. Indeed, life has not objective save physical satisfactions, it is empty and valueless.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Attitude, Struggle, Sea

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• Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Anchors, Goodness, Casts

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• If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Wind, Sailing

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• Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

  Iris Murdoch

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Sea

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.139, Penguin

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• Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Heart, Anchors, Ships

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• If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Inspirational, Softball, Powerful

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• Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Leaving, Ships

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.421, Penguin

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• It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doors, Giving, Perfect

  Thomas Jefferson (1801). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.257

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• Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Sailing, Care, Soap

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.88, Macmillan

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• The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

  Thomas Fuller

  Welcome, Passages

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• Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wine, Age, Comfort

  Evelyn Waugh (1947*). “Wine in peace and war”

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• To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Anchors

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.248, Best Books on

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