Sailing And Wind Quotes:

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

- Dolly Parton

source: Twitter post from May 11, 2010

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Nautical, My Attitude

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

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

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

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Friday, Greatness, Successful Life, Sailing And Wind

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 can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Positive Change, Inspirational Attitude

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Positive Change, Nautical

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

- Augustus Hare

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

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

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.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

topic: Change, Weather, Different, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

- George Matthew Adams

topic: Sports, Heart, Wind, Alertness, Sailing And Wind

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

- Ricky Skaggs

source: Song: Can't Control the Wind, Album: Solid Ground, 2007

topic: Wind, Sailing, Sail, Sailing And Wind

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

- Hilaire Belloc

source: Hilaire Belloc (1996). “Hills and the Sea”, p.126, Northwestern University Press

topic: Men, Wind, Sailing, Sailing And Wind, Ships At Sea

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

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

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

- Walter Scott

topic: Inspirational, Success, Wind, Sailing And Wind, Sailors And The Sea