Sail Quotes

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

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

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

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

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

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.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

He enters the port with a full sail.

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.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

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

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.