The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. — William Falconer
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. — Sterling Hayden
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. — Publilius Syrus
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. — William Shakespeare
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones
Short Rudder Quotes
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. — Thomas Carlyle
Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction. — Jack White
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. — Henry Ward Beecher
Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul. — Sholom Aleichem
Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder. — Kahlil Gibran
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado
Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life. — Yukito Kishiro
He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock. — Scottish Proverbs
How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder? — Christopher Fry
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. — Leonardo da Vinci
Rudder Image Quotes
A Ship Without A Rudder Quotes
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck. — Thomas Jefferson
Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go. — Joel Ross
Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory. — Leonardo da Vinci
Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship. — Henry A. Kissinger
To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder. — Mardy Grothe
A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed. — Thomas S. Monson
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. — Eileen Caddy
We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment — Owen Feltham
Ruddy Quotes
O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best. — John Burroughs
It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below. — Francis Parkman
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes,
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. — Thomas Gray
It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. — Edward E. Barnard
The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night. — Thomas Guthrie
O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair. — William Blake
In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand. — Francis Turner Palgrave
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. — Oliver Goldsmith
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. — William Blake
Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow. — George Eliot
You need to know who you want to be. Otherwise, your quest for change is like a boat without a rudder. — James Clear
My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings — Edvard Munch
You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past. — Warren W. Wiersbe
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.
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . — Thomas Jefferson
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Kahlil Gibran
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. — Kahlil Gibran
The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith. — Warren W. Wiersbe
But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows. — Saburo Sakai
Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep. — William Cornelius Van Horne
The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course. — Larry Osborne
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age. — Freya Stark
I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon the banking, wheeling wings, I am completely, vibrantly alive. With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made. — Stephen Coonts
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell. — Rebecca Harding Davis
In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain — Aristotle
Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Kahlil Gibran
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing. — Leonardo da Vinci
A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium. — Simone Weil
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. — John Dryden
To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life. — Rick Warren
Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. — Asa Gray
For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship. — Beryl Markham
Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals. — Bill Harry
With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made. — Stephen Coonts
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