"Better lose the anchor than the whole ship" — Dutch Proverb

More Anchor Quotes

This quote is filed under Anchor Quotes, one of 235 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away… — Ezra Taft Benson
• Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
• We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the… — Kirk Cameron
• For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me… — Kirk Cameron
• To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel… — Emile M. Cioran
• My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk… — Demi Lovato
• Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by… — June Hunt
• How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado
• Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them… — Ulysses S. Grant
• A babe is a mother's anchor. — Henry Ward Beecher

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