Navigators Quotes

• Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Leader, Ships

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

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• A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

  Khalil Gibran

  Soul, Everyday, Traveller

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• To be a navigator, you have to be fierce.

  Mau Piailug

  Fierce

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  By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

  Christopher Columbus

  School, Goal, May

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• The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe.And it is the one most accurate symbol of you.Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates of being. For, at last you know—you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship.

  Vera Nazarian

  Stars, Numbers, Perfect

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• Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

  Francis Chichester

  Inspirational, Funny, Drinking

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• Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

  Robert Orben

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

  Honore de Balzac

  Sea, Lines, Latitude And Longitude

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• The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wind, Sea, Feet

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• Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

  Katherine Boo

  Children, Blow, Vanity

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.16, Portobello Books

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• I do not believe there is any such sixth sense. A man with a good sense of direction is, to me, quite simply an able pathfinder - a natural navigator - somebody who can find his way by the use of the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch - the senses he was born with) developed by the blessing of experience and the use of intelligence. All that pathfinder needs is his senses and knowledge of how to interpret nature's signs.

  Harold Gatty

  Believe, Blessing, Men

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• That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.

  Nainoa Thompson

  Travel, Children, Growing Up

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• Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Wind, Looks

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.46

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• For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

  William Petty

  Soldier, Seamen, Merchants

  "Several Essays in Political Arithmetick".

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• I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.

  Henry Hudson

  Travel, Adventure, Land

  "Henry Hudson the Navigator: The Original Documents in which His Career is Recorded, Collected, Partly Translated, and Annotated".

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• I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Movie, Inspiring, Trying

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.490, Delphi Classics

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• The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Names, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.680, Delphi Classics

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• Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Song, Gratitude, Easter

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• I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Rivers, Needs, Use

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Time, Science, People

  Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858). “Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts”, p.91

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• The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Weiner for the field of control and communication theory.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps; and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Girl, Time, Memories

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