Rocking The Boat Quotes

• My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

  Ted Lindsay

  Boat, Penalties

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• I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Reading, Government, Speech

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, C. David Crenna (1987). “Lifting the Shadow of War”, McClelland & Stewart

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• There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Confidence, Courage

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Freedom and equality, addresses”

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• It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, People, Needs

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

  Kenny Loggins

  Letting Go, Running, Good Life

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  We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Meaningful

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• Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Rocks, Guy, Sailing

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  Donald Miller

  Falling In Love, Teaching, Believe

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