Sails Quotes

180 quotes by 146 authors

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will. — Susanna Kearsley
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. — Erin Morgenstern
Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We canâ€™t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude. — Thomas S. Monson
So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do… — Thomas S. Monson
So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if… — Virginia Woolf
Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Iâ€™m saying your name in the grocery store, Iâ€™m saying your name on the bridge at dawn. Your name like an animal covered with frost,… — Richard Siken
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards
Itâ€™s better to think of my life like thatâ€” part miracle, part madness. Itâ€™s better if I accept that I canâ€™t control any of the… — Jeanette Winterson
Most helmsmen wouldâ€™ve been satisfied with a pilotâ€™s wheel or a tiller. Leo had also installed a keyboard, monitor, aviation controls from a Learjet, a… — Rick Riordan
Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet.… — Margaret George
They would find this House of Hades. They'd take the Doors of Death. And by the gods, if Leo had to design a grabber arm… — Rick Riordan
Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to… — Rick Riordan
The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our… — Madeline Miller
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, - Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I must be here… — William Shakespeare
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… — Napoleon Hill
You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails. — Tony Robbins
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to… — Phillips Brooks

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