Sail Quotes

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy

Sea, Ocean, Whether

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

Knowledge, Thought, Wind

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

Learning, Afraid, Storms

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

Hope, Free, Learn

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill

Goal, Once, Accept

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

Reach, Anchor, Tie

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
Aeschylus

Learning, Afraid, Storms

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

End, Within, Driven

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

Lie, Sometimes, Against

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
John Calvin

Fear, Why, Reason

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.
Temple Grandin

Someone, Boring, Down

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

Wish, Fast, Ship

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Few, Willing, Flag

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

Life, Passion, Ocean

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott

Learning, Afraid, Storms

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison

Change, Nature, Men

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.
Donald Rumsfeld

Through, Thought, Enough

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life, Goal, Storm

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William Penn

Less, Judgment, Wit

He enters the port with a full sail.
Virgil

Full, Port, Enters

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Henry Van Dyke

Happiness, Good, Service

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
Oliver Herford

Place, Away, Pleasant

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.
Hugh Jackman

Family, Father, Parents

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
Neil Armstrong

Wonderful, Bird, Flying

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.
Tom Hiddleston

Nature, Human, Knowing

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
Soichiro Honda

Life, Best, After

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
Doris Lessing

Peace, Young, Lovely

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
William Osler

Study, Sea, While

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
Edward Kennedy

Life, Great, Future

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
Robert Bork

Great, Deal, Ship

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