Rudders Quotes

48 Rudders quotes by 36 unique authors

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart… — Thomas S. Monson
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting. — Leonardo da Vinci
How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder? — Christopher Fry
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second… — Thomas de Quincey
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. — Leonardo da Vinci
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances… — Thomas Carlyle
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… — Rebecca Harding Davis
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… — Earl Nightingale
Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction. — Jack White
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination… — John Keats
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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. — Edvard Munch
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. — Leonardo da Vinci
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… — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Edvard Munch
Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons… — Thomas S. Monson
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… — Khalil Gibran
Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or… — Haruki Murakami
Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans,… — Gena Showalter
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. — Henry Ward Beecher
A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and… — William J. H. Boetcker
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder. — B. C. Forbes
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect… — William Jennings Bryan

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