Sails Quotes

180 quotes by 149 authors

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. — Jimmy Dean
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. — Euripides
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. — William Falconer
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. — William Osler
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. — Dolly Parton
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
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
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.
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
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
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon. — Janet Fitch
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will… — Sena Jeter Naslund
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise. — Bill Cosby
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like… — Janet Fitch
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom
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… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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

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