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Sail Quotes

1.
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
Ramakrishna

Authors on Sail Quotes: Herman Melville William Shakespeare E. F. Schumacher Ralph Waldo Emerson Moby Karen White William Hague David Hare John Flanagan Robert Harris Paulo Coelho Greg Plitt Ralph Washington Sockman KT Tunstall Fay Weldon William Penn John Florio Robert Herrick Davy Jones Pope Benedict XVI Friedrich Nietzsche Ramakrishna Laura Dekker William Petersen John Masefield Robert James Waller Billie Joe Armstrong Peter Sarsgaard Thomas Fleming Day Isak Dinesen Mary Pope Osborne Susanna Kearsley Annie Dillard
2.
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't alter the breeze but you can adjust your course.
3.
When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.
Greg Plitt

'When the winds of fate are not at your back, take the reins of life and start rowing.'
4.
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."
Walt Whitman

5.
God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
Saint Augustine

6.
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.
William Shakespeare

7.
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
John Florio

8.
I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.
James Elroy Flecker

9.
Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
E. F. Schumacher

10.
I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.
E. F. Schumacher

11.
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
Annie Dillard

12.
Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails
Sharon G. Flake

13.
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
Robert Herrick

14.
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David Hare

15.
Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.
Saul Williams

16.
Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
Joaquin Miller

17.
Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.
Fay Weldon

18.
Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

19.
My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.
John Masefield

20.
The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
Seneca the Younger

21.
The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
Francois Fenelon

22.
Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
Laura Dekker

23.
Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side
KT Tunstall

24.
set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts
Mary Pope Osborne

25.
The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!
Davy Jones

26.
He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.
William Shakespeare

27.
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
Ernest Hemingway

28.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
William Penn

29.
Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.
Jesse Taylor

30.
It is time to be old To take in sail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.
It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.
Thomas Fleming Day

32.
Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.
Pope Benedict XVI

33.
Stig: 'Of course, she'll sail rings around Wolfswind,' Hal: 'Then why didn't you tell him that?' Stig: 'I like my head where it is.
John Flanagan

34.
It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
Moby

35.
You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
Barbara Kingsolver

36.
I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea
Robert James Waller

37.
In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?
Herman Melville

38.
To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.
Isak Dinesen

39.
It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.
William Hague

40.
When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.
Susanna Kearsley

41.
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.
Herman Melville

42.
You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination
Paulo Coelho

43.
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

44.
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.
William Petersen

45.
when you lose your sails, row.
Karen White

46.
I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.
Mehmet Murat Ildan

47.
But only a fool sails into combat with nature
Robert Harris

48.
I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.
Peter Sarsgaard

49.
Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.
Ralph Washington Sockman