If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable. — Seneca
Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port. — Zig Ziglar
Short Ship Port Quotes
The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats. — Paulo Coelho
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. — Seneca The Elder
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. — Paulo Coelho
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. — Thomas Aquinas
Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses. — John Goddard
Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for. — Zig Ziglar
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. — William Shakespeare
When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it. — Greer Garson
One can advise comfortably from a safe port. — Friedrich von Schiller
In calm water every ship has a good captain. — Grover Cleveland
Ship Port Image Quotes
A ship in harbour is safe but thats not what ships are for.
Ship In Port Quotes
Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.' — Jimmy Page
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
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports. — P. D. James
Entire water of the sea can't sink a ship, unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you !
The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for. — Paulo Coelho
Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there. — Peter Drucker
Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
Careering o'er the lonesome main,
No port shall know her keel again...
Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
The sailor finds there eternal night,
'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
And Ocean will the secret keep — Albert Pinkham Ryder
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits! — Barack Obama
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port. — David Foster Wallace
Ship Quotes
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink. — Dwight L. Moody
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up. — John Henrik Clarke
I am not afraid of storm for I am learning how to sail my ship.
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez
Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport. — Zayn Malik
At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. — Robin Lee Graham
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead. — Walt Whitman
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. — Iris Murdoch
We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
Seeing the whales off James Price Point, mothers, babies, bull whales, seeing the count, going up into the thousands of these whales, the assurance that they will be ok with a mega port, mega ships and a huge factory ashore, is now clearly proven wrong. — Bob Brown
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. — Henry Adams
A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose. — Avi
The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas. — Czeslaw Milosz
When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business. — Lucille Roybal-Allard
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
A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends. — C. S. Lewis
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore. — Christian Nevell Bovee
About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one. — Earl Nightingale
Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone. — George William Norris
When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false. — Traian Basescu
True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven. — Charles Spurgeon
The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere. — Henry Adams
There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our heart is a port; allow every ship to come to the port; but let only the best one to anchor! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port. — Leonardo da Vinci
Sometimes in life, we reach to a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I bought ... the pins with my three daughters in mind; the ships are beautiful, graceful, and moving along at full sail, having long since left home port. — Madeleine Albright
[Serialism] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.… — Claude Levi-Strauss
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call. — Chris Shays
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore. — Christian Nestell Bovee
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises. — Salman Khurshid
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