Sailing And Love Quotes:

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

- Louisa May Alcott

source: 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

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom, Storms Of Life, Tall Ships

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Sailboat, Change Growth

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

- Grace Hopper

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Maritime, Nautical

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.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Taking Action, Sailing And Love

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

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Ocean, Thinking, Blood, Mariners, Ocean Currents

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

- Augustus Hare

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Nautical, Thoughts And Thinking

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

- Ernest K. Gann

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

topic: Frustration, Wind, Sailing, Sailing And Love, Sailing And Wind

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

- George William Curtis

topic: Journey, Achievement, Sailing, Prosperous, Mariners

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

- Aristotle Onassis

topic: Hope, Wind, Sea, Maritime, Sailing And Love

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

- Willa Cather

source: Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Summer, Nature, Calm Seas, Sailing And Love

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

topic: Dark, Wind, Sailing, Middle Passage, Smooth Sailing

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Life, Ocean, Passion, Vast Ocean, Sailing And Love

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.

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

topic: Motivational, Lying, Moving, Nautical, Sailboat

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Anchors, Sailing And Love, Boats And Sailing

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

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

topic: Sailing, Democracy, Ships, Caucus, Sailing And Love

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

- Seneca the Younger

source: 'Epistulae ad Lucilium' letter 71, sect. 3

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Quality In Business, Smooth Sailing

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

- John Paul Jones

source: Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778

topic: Life, Fear, Military, American Revolution, Military Aviation

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

- Morgan Freeman

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

topic: Real, Believe, Ocean, Make Believe, Sailing And Love

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

- William Falconer

source: William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.253, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: Wind, Sailing, Sail, Sailing And Love

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Travel, Fun, Flying, Pilots And Flying, Sailing And Love

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

- Dennis Conner

topic: Running, Race, Long, Flashy, Sailing And Love

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

- Van Wyck Brooks

source: Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

topic: Book, Years, Two, Sailing And Love

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Sailing, Spheres, Driven, Drifting, Sailing And Love

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

- Bo Derek

topic: Dream, Beach, Horse, Southern California, Sailing And Love

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

- Dennis Conner

topic: Taken, Design, Sailing, Smooth Sailing, Sailing And Love

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

- Christopher Atkins

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

topic: Sports, Doctors, Medicine, Smooth Sailing, Sailing And Love