1.
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
Ramakrishna
2.
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.'
3.
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.
4.
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."
Walt Whitman
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
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
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
21.
The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
Francois Fenelon
22.
Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side
KT Tunstall
23.
Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
Laura Dekker
25.
The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!
Davy Jones
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
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
35.
I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.
Peter Sarsgaard
36.
It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
Moby
38.
I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea
Robert James Waller
39.
In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?
Herman Melville
40.
To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.
Isak Dinesen
41.
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
42.
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
43.
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.
Herman Melville
44.
You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination
Paulo Coelho
46.
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.
William Petersen
48.
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