I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. — Arthur Ashe
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. — Rumi
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. — Ramakrishna
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, Jr.
The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails. — Ramakrishna
Short Sailing And Wind Quotes
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. — Dolly Parton
We can't change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails. — Indian Proverbs
Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees. — William Johnson Cory
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. — Ramakrishna
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable. — Seneca
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. — Hanmer Parsons Grant
The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze. — Ramakrishna
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. — Jimmy Dean
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjust the sails.
Sailing Wind Quotes
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. — Mark Twain
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. — William Arthur Ward
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing. — Greg Plitt
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.
We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again — G. Campbell Morgan
We cant direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. — Hermann von Helmholtz
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J. R. R. Tolkien
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards
Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are. — John Denver
Sailing Quotes
How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land. — Al-Shafi‘i
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
I can't always change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. — Bernard Moitessier
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness. — Ramakrishna
later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett
We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. — Jimmy Buffett
At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. — Robin Lee Graham
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom
Sailing And The Sea Quotes
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
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. — Van Morrison
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester
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 of the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in you sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. — Charlie Cook
I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed. — Christopher Columbus
My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk. — Bernard Moitessier
We cannot control the wind, but we can direct the sail
Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man's dominion,
And that, with paddle or fins or pinion,
We soon or late
Shall navigate
The azure, as now we sail the sea. — John Townsend Trowbridge
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The ocean has always been a salve to my soul. — Jimmy Buffett
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis
Boats And Sailing Quotes
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. — Sterling Hayden
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward. — Ramakrishna
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds. Explore. Dream. Discover.
It's out there at sea that you are really yourself. — Vito Dumas
There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him. — Errol Flynn
The only way to get a good crew is to marry one. — Eric Hiscock
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat
The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself. — John Rousmaniere
Sailing And Love Quotes
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings. — John Burroughs
I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things. — Rumi
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses. — Bo Derek
I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean. — Karolina Kurkova
It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. — Ernest K. Gann
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare
There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!' — Niecy Nash
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do. — Henry David Thoreau
Sailing Ships Quotes
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. — John Enoch Powell
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. — Ovid
O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then. — Luqman
It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa
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
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day. — Miyamoto Musashi
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. — John Paul Jones
Sailors And The Sea Quotes
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. — Thomas Wolfe
And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away! — Charles Dickens
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity. — Thomas Gibbons
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Hugo Vihlen
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together. — Thomas Fleming Day
I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port — Assata Shakur
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. — Herman Melville
And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee. — Anne Bronte
Sailboat Quotes
Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself. — Jhene Aiko
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world. — Michelle Shocked
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers. — Albert Einstein
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does. — Alan Villiers
I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat. — Barbara Brown Taylor
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. — Lewis Francis Herreshoff
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. — Joshua Slocum
When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea. — Whoopi Goldberg
Spirits rise as the sails fill...
Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare.
Close the hatches and ports!
We're sailing again! — Jim Moore
In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world. — Albert Einstein
Feel The Wind Quotes
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks
Go out in nature and breathe some fresh air. Let go of your worries. Feel the wind in your hair. — Katrina Mayer
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. — Ashley Smith
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colores, and animals. — Scott Cunningham
I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification. — Brian Greene
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing. — Helen Keller
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. — Steve Jobs
And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody feels the wind blow.' — Paul Simon
A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall. — Jonathan Maberry
Summer Wind Quotes
But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow? — Lauren Oliver
Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves! — Humbert Wolfe
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. — Charles Dickens
Walk tall as the trees, live strong as the mountains, be gentle as the spring winds, keep the warmth of the summer sun in your heart, and the great spirit will always be with you. — American Indian Proverbs
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England. — Archibald MacLeish
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night. — Mark Twain
It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold. — Sigurd F. Olson
Where, twisted round the barren oak,
The summer vine in beauty clung,
And summer winds the stillness broke,
The crystal icicle is hung. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. — John Ruskin
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea. — Bernard Moitessier
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea — Bernard Moitessier
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc
Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim. — Barbara Ascher
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction. — Jack White
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I'm saying your name in the grocery store, I'm saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost, your name like a music that's been transposed, a suit of fur, a coat of mud, a kick in the pants, a lungful of glass, the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull. — Richard Siken
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything. — Maggie Smith
If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want. — Jim Rohn
Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails — Sharon G. Flake
The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life. — Jim Rohn
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft. — Homer
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought. — Napoleon Hill
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. — David Hare
Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times. — Matt Berninger
My job is to steel the backbone of people on the frontlines of social justice struggles, and to put wind in sails of those struggles. And people who are fighting on a, on a daily basis, at a grass roots level. — Tom Morello
The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I? — Swami Vivekananda
Marketing today is much more like sailing than driving. Your boat is the brand. If you point your boat in the right direction, follow the winds/currents, and steer, you will get the boat to go where you want it. Marketers should become the wind, but accept that they’re at the mercy of the currents and weather — Steve Rubel
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by — J. R. R. Tolkien
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure. — Robert Southwell
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. — George Chapman
What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide. — Joseph Conrad
We must reset our sails to take advantage of these changing winds and prosper as a business and individual. You can make the most of this downturn and position yourself for the next boom that's going to follow. — Harry S. Dent
If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir. — P. J. O'Rourke
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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