Ships At Sea Quotes:

Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

- Walter Winchell

topic: Sea, America, Ships, Good Evening, Ships At Sea

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

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

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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

Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.269, NYU Press

topic: Reflection, Sea, Ships, Ships At Sea

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

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

- Jonathan Winters

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Nautical, Inspirational New Beginning

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Leadership, Money, Business, Makin Money, Frugality

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

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

- e. e. cummings

source: E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

topic: Inspirational, Ocean, Lakes, Ocean Sea, Ocean Water

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

- Alan Villiers

topic: Men, Sailing, Doe, Nautical, Sailboat

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

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

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

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

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

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Love, Math, Reality, Statistician, Rudders

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

- Charles Davis

topic: Beach, Sight, Land, Mariners, Land And Sea

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

- Alain Gerbault

topic: Adventure, Air, Sea, Mariners, Sailboat

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

- John Masefield

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

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

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Sea, Boat, Enticing, Mariners, Ocean Sea

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

- Lewis Francis Herreshoff

topic: Sailing, Retreat, Cabins, Mariners, Sailboat

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Funny, Army, Men, Lexicographer, Army Navy

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

- Francis Drake

topic: Sea, Boat, Distasteful, Mariners, Maritime

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

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

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

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

- Christopher Morley

topic: Inspirational, Education, Book, Book Reading, Ink And Paper

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

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

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

- Whoopi Goldberg

topic: Sea, Looks, Forget, Nautical, Sailboat

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

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

- Vito Dumas

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

topic: Sea, Boat, Sailboat, Sailing Ships, Boats And Sailing

Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again!

- Jim Moore

source: Jim Moore (1996). “By Way of the Wind”, p.105, Sheridan House, Inc.

topic: Sea, Sailing, Gone, Sailboat, Sailing Ships

The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

- Paul Cayard

topic: Sailing, Lasts, Earth, Sailboat, Sailing Ships

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

- Thomas Moore

topic: Sea, Heaven, Ships, Tranquillity, Ships At Sea

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Sea, Brave, Secret, Ships At Sea

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

- Oliver Hazard Perry

source: Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

topic: Military, Enemy, Mets, Military History, Military Soldier

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

- Joshua Slocum

topic: Ships, Boat, Sail, Nautical, Sailboat

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

There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

- Errol Flynn

topic: Brother, Lying, Sea, Mariners, Sailboat

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

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

- Chester W. Nimitz

source: 1959 In the NewYork Times, 24May.

topic: Peace, War, Sea, Sailboat, Seamen

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Jobs, Ocean, People, Maritime, Innovative Leadership

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