Rudders Quotes

• The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Morning, Motivation

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.95

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• A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Men, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Oct 31, 2014

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• You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Moving, Past

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• Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

  Khalil Gibran

  Passion, Enthusiasm, Reason

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• A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Goal

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• Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.

  Yukito Kishiro

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• The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Mistake, Past, Anchors

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• For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

  Khalil Gibran

  Passion, Clock Is Ticking, Flames

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• 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 but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Passion, Flames

  Khalil Gibran, “Reason And Passion XV”

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• Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.

  Jack White

  Moving, Wind, Magic

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• He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Math, Reality

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• Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Spiritual

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• To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

  Mardy Grothe

  Life, Passion, Purpose

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• Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Religion, Reason

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.360

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

  Larry Osborne

  Dreamer, Ships, Idealist

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• If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

  Freya Stark

  Inspirational, Funny, Faith

  Freya Stark (1974). “The Open Door, 1930-35”

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• Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

  Edvard Munch

  Should Have, Anxiety, Ships

  "The Man and the Artist".

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• Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

  Owen Feltham

  Humanity, Sailing, Ships

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• In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

  Aristotle

  Pain, Pleasure, Young

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.198, Aeterna Press

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• A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Attitude, Men, Mind

  "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Collected and Republished". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 2008.

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• Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life.

  Richard G. Scott

  Moving, Control Of Your Life, Achievement

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• With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.

  Stephen Coonts

  Hands, Essence, Feet

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• Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sports, Men, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Love, Soul, Body

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