Quote by Robin Hobb

While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which…

— Ian Gardner

“The ability to recognize that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat in crucial to the future…

— Andrew S. Grove

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

— David Hare

“A Departure, the last professional sight of land, is always good, or at least good enough. For, even if the weather be thick, it…

— Joseph Conrad

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon…

— Thomas Reid

“A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds…

— Avi

“I loved to steer the ship, and in a short time became an expert helmsman. What glorious weather one experiences within the limits of…

— John D. Whidden

“Adept sailors emerge after sailing tough storms.”

— Donald Ngonyo

“...and he realized that he missed the old days of sailing, the ship almost willowy and hesitant, responsive to winds and weathers - not…

— Jay Parini

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their…

— Rudyard Kipling

“The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

— George William Curtis