Top 245 Sails Quotes & Sayings

Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

when you lose your sails, row.

Arsenal have the wind in their sails and they need to put their foot to the floor.

Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

... the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? Is it the fault of the merciful Father, whose wind of mercy is blowing without ceasing, day and night, whose mercy knows no decay, is it His fault that some of us are happy and some unhappy? We make our own destiny. His sun shines for the weak as well as for the strong. His wind blows for saint and sinner alike. He is the Lord of all, the Father of all, merciful, and impartial.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!

Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will dash themselves against the cliffs. One sails alone. That is my ship. It sails into icy caverns where the sea-bear barks and stalactites swing green chairs. The waves rise, their crests curl; look at the lights on the mastheads. They have scattered, they have foundered, all except my ship which mounts the wave and sweeps before the gale and reaches the islands where the parrots chatter and then the creepers.

In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.

Don't let the storm take the wind out of your sails.

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny.

I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.

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

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

It is the weather, not work, that wears out sails.

You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

Although I loved 'Black Sails,' 'Lost in Space' was like holiday camp after that.

Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.