Sail Quotes

512 Sail quotes by 385 unique authors

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. — Aristotle Onassis
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. — Dolly Parton
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. — Blaise Pascal
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. — William Penn
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. — Alexander Pope
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. — Enoch Powell
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails… — John C. Reilly
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. — Jim Rohn
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well… — Donald Rumsfeld
I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active. — Laura Schlessinger
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for… — Hunter S. Thompson
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. — William Arthur Ward
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… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
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… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat,… — Dag Hammarskjold
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
blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face… — Lucille Clifton
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know… — Barbara Kingsolver
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a… — Jodi Picoult
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the… — Zora Neale Hurston
Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I… — C.S. Lewis
Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain… — Shel Silverstein

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