Top 49 Life Sailing Quotes
#1. Not romantic," she disagreed. "To me it would be romantic if Antony properly fell on his sword and kicked the bucket and Cleopatra escaped and lived a lovely life sailing along the Nile without him and his big ideas ruining her kingdom.
Jack Gantos
#2. nor did he dream that such persons were as lonely eagles sailing solitary in the azure sky far above the earth and its swarming freight of gregarious life.
Jack London
#3. All these thoughts of love and strife
Glimmered through his lurid life,
As the stars' intenser light
Through the red flames o'er him trailing,
As his ships went sailing, sailing,
Northward in the summer night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#4. My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.
Johann Lamont
#5. People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
David Lee Roth
#6. There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.
Herman Melville
#7. In a sea of strangers,
you've longed to know me.
Your life spent sailing
to my shores.
Lang Leav
#8. [Sailing term]
"Going through life on broad reach"
[could not be more relaxed]...
Unk.
#9. It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
Francis Drake
#10. There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
Fernando Pessoa
#11. We seldom question the purpose of life when our world is sunny and bright. This question tends to hide itself during pleasant sailing, only rearing its face during the deepest and darkest travails, when the gales of storm weather have fallen.
Donald L. Hicks
#12. In sailing, in weather, in life and death, answers are not endings and questions are not to be feared. The unknowns keep us moving forward.
Kaci Cronkhite
#13. Who hadn't at some point in his life wanted to climb to the top of a sailing ship in full flight?
Lev Grossman
#14. Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it
anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.
Elbert Hubbard
#15. Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
Robert Breault
#16. The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most
of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival.
Jim Trefethen
#17. Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Amelia Earhart
#18. An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act ... You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#19. Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.
Jimmy Cliff
#20. Wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of hurtful feelings and memories the same way we so easily send a bad picture sailing into our computer's trash can?
Liz Fenton
#21. When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.
Bernard Moitessier
#22. Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
Dennis Conner
#23. Every ship sailing the sea of life needs to have the divine Pilot on board; but when storms arise, when tempests threaten, many persons push their Pilot overboard, and commit their bark into the hand of finite man, or try to steer it themselves.
Ellen G. White
#24. The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.
Lewis Francis Herreshoff
#25. Life isn't always smooth sailing and sometimes you're afraid of hurting somebody's feelings, or anything, but I think that the truer you can be to yourself the more you're going to kind of open your horizons to a really beautiful relationship.
Dianna Agron
#26. If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Morgan Freeman
#27. The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. Life is never going to be smooth sailing, but I've learned to roll with the punches.
Marie Hall
#29. I am sailing on a ship bound for life.
a line in a song
Phil Wickham
#30. Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.
David Crosby
#31. Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.
David Whyte
#32. Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.
David Gemmell
#34. Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.
Marita Golden
#35. Oh, it's a beautiful day, it's an elegant, graceful day, and I'm sailing down the Strip in glamorous Las Vegas, on my motor scooter, in company with a certified illegal prostitute who loves poetry and remembers it. Sonofabitch, I'm a real writer! I used to worry about it, but no more. Life is good.
Peter S. Beagle
#36. Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.
Wayne Dyer
#37. Sailing really forces you to be present and in the moment. You kind of forget about the bullshit of life. Your thoughts go away because you're focused on making sure everything's working. I like being in that place.
Daria Werbowy
#38. Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm,
none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.
Henry Van Dyke
#39. We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
Seth Adam Smith
#40. Life on the blue part of the globe for eight years had suited me - the wild open spaces, the bliss of buoyancy, the volatile, soul-powered wind. Sailing had struck a nerve both primal and poetic. On and near the ocean life made sense, It made every sense work.
Kaci Cronkhite
#41. Life is a voyage across troubled waters where our days are often spent clinging to the top of the highest mast, scouting for a comforting glimpse of shore.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about.
Michael Meade
#44. The Lord doesn't always make our paths smooth sailing, but He does make it possible to rise above adversity.
Dana Arcuri
#45. Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.
John F. Kennedy
#46. This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath ...
Gary Paulsen
#47. Now he is certainly sailing above, he on whom my wishes hang, and in whose hand I should like to lay my life's happiness. I will dare everything to win him and an immortal soul.
Hans Christian Andersen
#48. The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.
Joseph Conrad
#49. But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.
Carsten Jensen
