Sailing And The Sea Quotes:

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Ocean, Heart, Sea, Ocean Sea, Oceans And Seas

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

- Thomas Gibbons

topic: Sailing, Sailor, Eternity, Sailing And The Sea, Sailors And The Sea

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

- Whoopi Goldberg

topic: Sea, Looks, Forget, Nautical, Sailboat

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

- Van Morrison

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

topic: Ocean, Sea, Sky, Beach And Ocean, Beach Ocean

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

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Mariners, Navigate

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

source: Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

topic: Beach, Ocean, Sea, Nautical, Scuba

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

- Nicholas Monsarrat

topic: Running, Order, Discipline, Nautical, Sailing And The Sea

The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

- John Rousmaniere

source: John Rousmaniere (1988). “The sailing lifestyle: a guide to sailing and crusing for pleasure”, Fireside

topic: Goal, Helping, Boat, Nautical, Sailing And The Sea

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Ocean, Civilization, Ties, Food Chain, Sailing And The Sea

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

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

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

- John Masefield

topic: Men, Ships, Boat, Nautical, Looking Down

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

- Robin Lee Graham

topic: Sea, Littles, Needs, Mariners, Maritime

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Life, Leadership, Determination, Risking Your Life, Sea Life

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

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

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

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

- Alain Gerbault

topic: Adventure, Air, Sea, Mariners, Sailboat

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.

- John Masefield

source: John Masefield, “Sea Fever”

topic: Lonely, Stars, Sea, Captain Kirk, Mariners

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

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

- Kenneth Grahame

source: TheWind in theWillows ch. 1 (1908)

topic: Witty, Sailing, Half, Mariners, Wind In The Willows

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

- Van Morrison

source: Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic

topic: Smell, Sea, Sky, Oceans And Seas, Beach And Ocean

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

- John Masefield

topic: Life, Dream, Sweet, Vagrants, Sweet Dreams

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

- Herman Melville

topic: Depression, Strong, Hands, Upper Hand, Grim

The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

- Arthur Ransome

source: Arthur Ransome, Brian Hammett (2002). “Racundra's third cruise”, Wiley

topic: Tired, Men, Ideas, Mariners, Sailing And The Sea

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

- Sterling Hayden

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

topic: Wind, Boat, Shore, Mariners, Nautical

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1106, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Men, Mariners, Sailing And The Sea

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

- Bernard Moitessier

source: Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.62, Sheridan House, Inc.

topic: Hate, Storm, Spirit, Nautical, Calm Seas

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

- Alex Blackwell

topic: Drinking, Beer, Weekend, Sailing And The Sea, Boats And Sailing

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Sea, Land, House, Sailing And The Sea

There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

- Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

topic: Two, White, Color, Nautical, Black Or White

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

- Hammond Innes

topic: Sea, Boat, Danger, Mariners, Nautical

I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.

- Ernest K. Gann

topic: Sleep, Want, Boat, Sailing And The Sea, Boats And Sailing

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

- E. B. White

topic: Men, Sailing, Boat, Mariners, Maritime

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

- Donald Hamilton

source: Donald Hamilton (1980). “Cruises with Kathleen”, David McKay Company

topic: Long, Way, Gale, Nautical, Sailing And The Sea

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

- Hilaire Belloc

source: Hilaire Belloc (1912). “First and Last”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

topic: Men, Sea, Sailing, Sailing And The Sea

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

- Charlie Cook

topic: Sight, Sea, Forever, Lost At Sea, Sailing And The Sea

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

- Ted Turner

topic: Mistake, Numbers, Sailing, Sailing And The Sea, Boats And Sailing

And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.

- Bob Bitchin

topic: Adventure, Civilization, Two, Sailing And The Sea

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

- Jimmy Buffett

topic: Ocean, Soul, Nautical, Sailing And The Sea, Boats And Sailing

I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out of some remote well. Then the glory of sail will return.

- Tristan Jones

source: Tristan Jones (1998). “Ice!”, p.35, Sheridan House, Inc.

topic: Running, Oil, Waiting, Gob, Sailing And The Sea

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

- Bernard Moitessier

source: Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Sea, Needs, Disappear, Seagull, Sailing And The Sea

There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

- Kenneth Grahame

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Ems, Done, Half, Wind In The Willows, Sailing And The Sea

The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one's imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.

- Jimmy Cornell

topic: Dream, Mean, Reality, Sailing And The Sea, Sea Voyage

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

- Francis Stokes

topic: Sea, Preparation, Way, Nautical, Sailing And The Sea