Ships Quotes

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  We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Meaningful

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• Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.

  Susan Collins

  Moving, Energy, Momentum

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Tides, Success Of Others, Celebrate

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• Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

  Fitzhugh Dodson

  Inspirational, Success, Greatness

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• I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

  Susan Sarandon

  Vision, Captains

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

  Brian Tracy

  Degrees, Different, Want

  Twitter post from Jun 18, 2014

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  I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

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• Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Boards, Sailor

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [22]

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• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  Faye Wattleton

  Leadership, Business, Storm

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• If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

  Dave Allen

  Funny, Hilarious, Cargo

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• It's easy to grin
  when your ship comes in
  and you've got the stock market beat.
  But the man worthwhile
  is the man who can smile
  when his shorts are too tight in the seat.

  Ted Knight

  Money, Men, Shack

  "Fictional character: Judge Elihu Smails". "Caddyshack", 1980.

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• A great ship asks deep water.

  George Herbert

  Greatness, Deep Water, Asks

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.306

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• A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

  Epictetus

  Anchors, Should, Depends

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• The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

  Amelia Barr

  Inspirational, Friendship, Travel

  Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.149, Litres

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• Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Sea, Pilots, Calm

  "The UnReal Times’ exclusive analysis of Gujarat elections with Navjot Singh Sidhu". Interview with Ashwin Kumar, www.theunrealtimes.com. December 20, 2012.

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• The true ship is the ship builder.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Builder

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

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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 ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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• It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

  Vito Dumas

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

  John Guzzwell, Vito Dumas, Joshua Slocum (1976). “Great voyages in small boats: solo circumnavigations”, John De Graff

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• History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

  Stephen Spender

  Memories, History

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Times" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 247), 1993.

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• Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Distance, Men, Navy

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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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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• Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Sea, Land, Pirate

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• There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Sailing, Life Is

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• The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

  Herodotus

  Wall, All Alone, Should

  "Herodotus, VII. 141". Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations V2: Drawn From The Speech And Literature Of All Nations, Ancient And Modern (1922), Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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