Sailing And Wind Quotes

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

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

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

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

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

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

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.

There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.