Ability Quote by Edward Gibbon

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

— Edward Gibbon

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

— Edward Gibbon

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

— Anonymous

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

— Jim Rohn

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

— Charles Churchill

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

— Lawrence Hargrave

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

— Seneca the Younger

To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

— George Herbert

“ships sails in many directions, but it is the same wind responsible to their destinations.”

— Yuddandisivasubramanyam

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are…

— Henry David Thoreau

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…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox