Sailing And Wind Quotes

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

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Friday, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 26, 2016

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• We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Twitter post from May 11, 2010

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• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

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• We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Hope, Wind, Sea

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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Smell the sea and feel the sky.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic

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• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Motivational, Lying, Moving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

  Dennis Conner

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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

  George William Curtis

  Journey, Smooth Sailing, Achievement

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• I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Funny, Dark

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• I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  Song: Can't Control the Wind, Album: Solid Ground, 2007

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• For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Wind, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1996). “Hills and the Sea”, p.126, Northwestern University Press

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Frustration, Wind, Sailing

  Ernest K. Gann (2000). “Song of the Sirens”, p.37, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  "Song: 'Into the Mystic'". 1970.

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• He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  Walter Scott

  Inspirational, Success, Wind

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• Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

  Sterling Hayden

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.80, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

  Sterling Hayden

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.67, Pickle Partners Publishing

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