Sails Quotes

• Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Ships
  • Proper
  • Heavenly

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wind
  • Fair
  • Sails

• May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Moon
  • Wind
  • Sails

• I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Dark
  • Wind
  • Boat

• You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Change
  • Wind
  • Sails

• If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wind
  • Port
  • Favorable

• You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Control
  • Wind
  • Sails

• I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching. I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Ball
  • Trained
  • Sails

• when you lose your sails, row.

  

  Karen White
  • Lose
  • Sails

• Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.

  

  Emilie du Chatelet
  • Actions
  • Self-Love
  • Mainspring

• To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Sea
  • Genius
  • Run

• If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

  

  Martin Luther
  • Fear
  • The Lord
  • Govern

• Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Occasion
  • Sails
  • Bygones

• Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sea
  • Reflection
  • Sails

• It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.

  

  Wes Walz
  • Emotions
  • Adversity
  • Sails

• Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.

  

  Barbara Lazear Ascher
  • Wind
  • Grief
  • Calls

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Wind
  • Sails

• We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.

  

  Wes Walz
  • Feel
  • Goal
  • Adversity

• She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Wind
  • Storm
  • Sails

• I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Children
  • Grandmother
  • Storm

• When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heart
  • Heaven
  • Sorrow