Quotes with sails

  • 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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  • Jimmy Dean I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
    Jimmy Dean
    American country music singer, actor, and businessman (1928 - 2010)
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  • Mark Twain 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.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Fisher Ames 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.
    Fisher Ames
    American politician (1758 - 1808)
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  • Enoch Powell If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • Jim Rohn It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bob Rae Like sailors, we cannot change the weather or the direction of the wind. But we change the direction of our sails.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Arthur Ward The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, and the realist adjusts the sails.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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