Sail Quotes

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

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

Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

Anthony Doerr

Sail on, O Ship of State Sail on, O Union, strong and great Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

William Cowper

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

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

For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life, if freedom fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

Seneca

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts.

Mary Pope Osborne

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

Augustus Hare

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

Casper Van Dien

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

Parker Stevenson

We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away.

Evelyn Waugh

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail.

David Hare (dramatist)

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Franz Grillparzer

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

James Elroy Flecker

I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.

Tori Amos

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