Top 138 Overboard Quotes & Sayings

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.

I just think the whole kale thing has gone a little overboard. It's everywhere you go, and it can actually inhibit thyroid function.

I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

Hire prudently, go slow and don’t go overboard.

When priorities are proper, the power to endure is increased. And when internalized, those priorities will help keep you from "going overboard."

You have to stick to your plan. Throwing everything overboard and inventing something on the spot does not make sense. You will never get that from me.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

Focus on the flavor and texture of your desserts. Don't go overboard with too many ingredients and flavors keep a good balance of flavors.

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

You have to be careful not to go overboard. How do you balance what is clearly great television with good journalism?

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

A director must push his actors to the utmost limit to get everything possible out of each scene - without being corny or sentimental or going overboard.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

I love 'Overboard!' That's such a great movie, and it's one of the first movies where it co-stars a man and a woman, and they are both equally funny. That's a very rare thing.

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior.

As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.

The only thing darker than 'Overboard' is 'Micki & Maude,' the bigamy comedy from 1984.

For a while, I Photoshopped too much. When you first learn what you can do, you really go overboard sometimes.

Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a little overboard. Anyway, my parents were pleased that I played for him.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

I do some three-part harmonies on 'Throes of Rejection' and 'Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks,' but I didn't go overboard with it.

My top styling tips for brides are, first and foremost, to be careful not to go overboard with makeup. The goal is to look like yourself, just a bit enhanced!

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

There are times when I feel that the journalists go overboard to get a bit of juicy news, but I guess that's a part of their work.

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe.

We never go overboard and above people's heads. We strive to retain that energy, that spirit we've always had. We feel the more simple and original something is, the better.

I am honest; I speak the truth, and I sometimes probably go overboard and speak my mind.

There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.

I think [Hillary] Clinton owes the press some thanks for going so far overboard on the emails and the Clinton Foundation over the past year.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

The guy I cater my clothes to wants to be different without going overboard. So we sell many classic silhouettes with unique details to avoid things from getting ordinary.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

If somebody says or does something to me first, then I'll respond, and I go overboard with it, and it seems like I'm the one that has beef with somebody.

It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard.

I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard.

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.

The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink.

People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.

And obviously, when I talk about something that has hurt me in my life, I can go overboard.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.