Top 478 Sail Quotes & Sayings

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs.

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.

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you can rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff

Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

I'm desperate to learn how to sail a boat.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

To reach a port we must set sail

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

Nothing is here to stay Everything has to begin and end A ship in a bottle won't sail All we can do is dream that the wind will blow us across the water A ship in a bottle set sail

The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans!

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.

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.

Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

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

He enters the port with a full sail.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

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

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn't acquire the knowledge.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

I've got a fetish about motors on sail boats. Sailboats were meant to sail.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?" "The Foresail?" "Very good, Mr. Wheeler, and the next one up would be called..." ..."The Next Sail, Sir?" "Alas, no, Mr. Wheeler.

He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.

My dad really wanted to learn how to sail and, when I was 16, he became a quarter partner in this small, 24-foot trimaran.Three weeks a year, I'd go with him and we'd sail from Florida out around the Bahamas.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. The lighthouse of the Lord beckons to all as we sail the seas of life. Our home port is the celestial kingdom of God. Our purpose is to steer an undeviating course in that direction. A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder—never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: Chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.

I sail and play tennis, and I don't smoke or drink caffeine.

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

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