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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
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If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
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Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare -
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, and the realist adjusts the sails.
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When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails.
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