A Quote by Seneca the Younger

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
Roman - Philosopher
4 BC - 65

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

Seneca the Younger

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I know how to dance with the wind, I can use its power by sailing this way, then that way, and again this way, till finally I get to you. With rowing, you're working primarily with your arms and shoulders. But with sailing, you're making bigger use of the wind and the waves.

Jeff Bridges

Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing "by the wind" his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill.

Paul J. H. Schoemaker

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca the Elder

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.

Earl Nightingale

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

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

George Matthew Adams

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

John Lewis

Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way.

Melissa Walker

We know that investing in clean energy, like offshore wind, is a job creator in Connecticut and represents a huge opportunity for our port communities.

Ned Lamont

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Seneca the Younger

Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

Robert Aris Willmott

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.