Sailing is the sport or activity of using boats with sail. Profoundly inspirational sailing quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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Famous Sailing Quotes
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
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
Have an anchor so that life doesn’t toss you around. Debby Ryan
To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives. Carleton Mitchell
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. Alexander Pope
Confronting a storm is like fighting God. All the powers in the universe seem to be against you and, in an extraordinary way, your irrelevance is at the same time both humbling and exalting. Francis LeGrande
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. Augustus Hare
A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway. Webb Chiles
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. Rachel Carson
If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late. Pete Goss
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Rumi
It’s remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. Ernest K. Gann
It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. John F. Kennedy
A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be. Aubrey de Selincourt
The cure for anything is saltwater sweat, tears, or the sea. Isak Dinesen
I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. Andre Gide
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ernest Hemingway
The charm of singlehanded cruising is not solitude, but independence. Claud Worth
I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it. Cheryl Strayed
Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid. Robert N. Rose
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott
The most challenging times bring us the most empowering lessons. Karen Salmansohn
Sometimes there is no time for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path! Mehmet Murat Ildan
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. Aristotle Onassis
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Joseph Conrad
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. Dolly Parton
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. Carl Sandburg
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Hellen Keller
Wind is to us what money is to life on shore. Sterling Hayden
Confronting a storm is like fighting God. All the powers in the universe seem to be against you and, in an extraordinary way, your irrelevance is at the same time both humbling and exalting. Francis LeGrande
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. Christopher Columbus
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. Nicholas Monsarrat
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. Jim Rohn
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Helen Keller
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.Ella Maillart
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Rumi
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Mark Twain
And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure. Bob Bitchin
The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use. Dom Degnon
When your life is moving too fast and you find yourself in chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset. Christy Ann Martine
The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. Joshua Slocum
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. Ernest Hemingway
If one doesn’t know to which port one is sailing, no port is favorable. Lucius Annaneus Seneca
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. Ernest Hemingway
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage. Mark Twain
It’s in moments like these that you forget how soothing the sea can be, and you remember its power and force. Michelle Segrest
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don’t caucus a crew as to where you’ll go anymore than you inquire when they’d like to shorten sail. Sterling Hayden
We can battle the sea, or we can embrace it. Sometimes she will be sweet and sometimes mean as a snake. We must embrace the experience and trust we will get through it. Michelle Segres
Sailing The fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense while being cold, wet and miserable. Irv Heller
Set your goals high and don’t stop till you get there. Bo Jackson
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man’s pleasure. Robert Southwell
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice. Bethany Hamilton
To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of clearing up. Jose Ortega y Gasset
You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. Diane von Furstenberg
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. George William Curtis
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. Shonda Rhimes
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. Fitzhugh Dodson
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Amelia Earhart
To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives. Carleton Mitchell
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. Jim Rohn
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
There’s a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It’s exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don’t cheat yourselves out of this promise. Nancy Reagan
Have an anchor so that life doesn’t toss you around. Debby Ryan
I am not afraid. I was born to do this. Joan of Arc
On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. Alexander Pope
