Wind Quotes

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

Change, Pessimist, Optimist

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

Change, Direction, Reach

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Fans, Absence

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee

While, Tree, Notice

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Political, Give, Lies

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith

Life, Dreams, Beauty

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill

Against, Rise, Highest

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

Knowledge, Thought, Mankind

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Good, Rain, Sunshine

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Khalil Gibran

Blame, Secrets, Trees

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn

Change, Yourself, Cannot

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

Remember, Off, Against

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia

Down, Play, Against

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

Direction, Sails, Determines

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
Chanakya

Person, Direction, Flowers

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra

Else, Might, Someplace

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sailing, Favorable, Port

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden

Strong, Adversity, Cannot

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James

Find, Enough, Far

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler Yeats

Dance, Mountains, Ride

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
e. e. cummings

Rain, Long, Away

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens

Sun, Light, Days

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

Cannot, Direct, Sails

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. Forster

Good, Sunrise, Daily

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Knows, Harbor, Seeks

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Shania Twain

Life, Down, Short

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger, Mind, Lamp

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Making, Aim, Plans

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.
Mitt Romney

Love, Alone, America

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Art, Sad, While

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