Sailing Quotes

• It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Friday, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 26, 2016

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• To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Choices, Desire, World

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.28, Wildside Press LLC

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• 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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• I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  Song: Can't Control the Wind, Album: Solid Ground, 2007

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Hope, Wind, Sea

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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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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

  E. B. White

  Men, Nautical, Boat

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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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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

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• Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

  Lowell Thomas

  Inspirational, Funny, Hands

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• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Twitter post from May 11, 2010

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• Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

  David Lee Roth

  Happiness, Money, Pull Ups

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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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• The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Military, Organization, Nautical

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• It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

  Francis Drake

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

  Morgan Freeman

  Real, Believe, Ocean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Sea, Land, Pirate

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• I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.

  Hugo Vihlen

  Should Have, Nautical, Sailor

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• Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Spiritual

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