A Quote by Edward Gibbon

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon

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Edward Gibbon
English - Historian
April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon

Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.

Samuel Smiles

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

Charles Churchill

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

Juliet Marillier

Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

Lucretius

Navigators have had a huge impact in my life; I gave my life to Christ in college and the witness of The Navigators and their dynamic materials have provided a great foundation for my Christian life. As the founder of FOCUS, The Navigator staff has been a great resource to me and to my staff as we too seek to reach a generation of young leaders with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Curtis Martin

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Charles Caleb Colton

All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?

Hirohito

If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

Isadora Duncan

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.