We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
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.
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.
What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.
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