Navigators Quotes:

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

- William Petty

source: "Several Essays in Political Arithmetick".

topic: Soldier, Seamen, Navigators

Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Don't ever underestimate the power of planning. You can't make your vision come to life unless you outline each goal-driven step at a time. And you can't reach your full potential unless you plan how to make the most of your purpose and passion. When you look around and see people who are the captains of their ship, invariably they have taken pains to chart their successful course through life.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Pain, Taken, Passion, Navigators, Steers

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

- Edward Gibbon

source: "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

topic: Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Mariners, Nautical

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Soul, Everyday, Traveller, Navigators

To be a navigator, you have to be fierce.

- Mau Piailug

topic: Fierce, Navigators

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

- Christopher Columbus

topic: School, Goal, May, Navigators, Prevailing

The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe.And it is the one most accurate symbol of you.Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates of being. For, at last you know—you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship.

- Vera Nazarian

topic: Stars, Numbers, Perfect, Pointing, Navigators

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

- Francis Chichester

topic: Drunk, World, Sailor, Mariners, Navigate

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

- Robert Orben

topic: Inspirational, Time, Humorous, Navigators, How Time Flies

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

- Charles Kuralt

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Stars, Fun, Dixie, Brooklyn Bridge

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Sea, Lines, Latitude And Longitude, Latitude, Navigators

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: Wind, Sea, Feet, Navigators, Swelling

Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

- Katherine Boo

source: Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.16, Portobello Books

topic: Children, Blow, Vanity, Navigators

I do not believe there is any such sixth sense. A man with a good sense of direction is, to me, quite simply an able pathfinder - a natural navigator - somebody who can find his way by the use of the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch - the senses he was born with) developed by the blessing of experience and the use of intelligence. All that pathfinder needs is his senses and knowledge of how to interpret nature's signs.

- Harold Gatty

topic: Believe, Blessing, Men, Sixth Sense, Navigators

That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.

- Nainoa Thompson

topic: Children, Growing Up, Healing, Hawaiians, Navigators

Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

- Samuel Smiles

source: Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.46

topic: Men, Wind, Looks, Navigators, Practical Life

I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.

- Henry Hudson

source: "Henry Hudson the Navigator: The Original Documents in which His Career is Recorded, Collected, Partly Translated, and Annotated".

topic: Travel, Adventure, Land, Navigators

I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

- Jim Jarmusch

topic: Trying, Collaboration, Way, Navigators

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.490, Delphi Classics

topic: Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful, Navigators, Concur

The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.680, Delphi Classics

topic: Native American, Names, Lakes, Navigators

Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.

- George Horace Lorimer

topic: Song, Gratitude, Easter, Navigators, Jubilation

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

- Peter Schjeldahl

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Rivers, Needs, Use, Navigators

It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

- Matthew Fontaine Maury

source: Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858). “Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts”, p.91

topic: Time, Science, People, Navigators, Great Value

The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Weiner for the field of control and communication theory.

- Andre-Marie Ampere

topic: Art, Communication, Mean, Navigators, Cybernetics

Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps; and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover.

- Robert Baden-Powell

topic: Girl, Time, Memories, Abbey, Westminster Abbey

The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

- Bill Gates

source: "Technology Means Everyone Can Be a Philanthropist" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

topic: Evaluate, Navigators

Navigators have had a huge impact in my life; I gave my life to Christ in college and the witness of The Navigators and their dynamic materials have provided a great foundation for my Christian life. As the founder of FOCUS, The Navigator staff has been a great resource to me and to my staff as we too seek to reach a generation of young leaders with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

- Curtis Martin

topic: Christian, Jesus, College, Navigators, Young Leaders

That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present moment. ... The air seems to become as accessible to him as the waters.... The name of Montgolfier, the names of those hardy navigators of the new element, will live through time; but who among us, on seeing these superb experiments, has not felt his soul elevated, his ideas expanded, his mind enlarged?

- Jean Sylvain Bailly

topic: Science, Race, Air, Navigators

I reached over and squeezed Curran’s hand. “Come on, you, me, a platter of barely seared meat, it will be great. If we see the navigators, we can make fun of the way they hold their forks.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.334, Penguin

topic: Fun, Hands, Meat, Navigators

A bunch of money-grubbin', greenhouse-gasing, seal-clubbing, oil-drilling, Bible-thumping, missile-firing, right-to-life-ing, lethal-injecting hypocrites. People whose idea of a good time is strapping a dead panda to a Lincoln Navigator and running over everybody in the gay parade.

- Richard Jeni

source: "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

topic: Running, Hypocrite, Gay, Pandas, Oil Drilling

We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

source: Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

topic: Oil, Israel, People, Navigators

We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Home, Machines, Barbarians, Navigators, New Toys

Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

- Dusty Baker

source: "Dusty Baker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Player, Thinking, Two, Navigators