A Quote by Og Mandino

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Og Mandino

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Og Mandino
American - Author
December 12, 1923 - September 3, 1996

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Og Mandino

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.

Avi

For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.

Hal Moore

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

Seneca the Younger

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

Seneca the Younger

The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.

Evan Esar

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

Avi

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

Henry David Thoreau

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

Henry David Thoreau

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

Ken Follett

About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.