Rowing Boat Quotes

#1. Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

Kenichi Ohmae

#2. Choice. - The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does?

Jonathan Edwards

#3. The children had been using these spatulas as oars, but rowing a boat is very hard work, particularly if one's traveling companions are too busy bragging to help out, and Violet was trying to think of a way they might move the boat faster.

Lemony Snicket

#4. I don't believe a team can lead itself. I'm a big believer in vision.

Robert Brunner

#5. If you want to know why you didn't make a boat
I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing.

Jim Dietz

#6. Race for the pschological advantage. Sit up tall, pull in high, stay within the margins of power, and they will inevitably look over at some point to see what kind of God is blasting your boat forward.

Christopher Allsopp

#7. Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity.

Ted Dekker

#8. In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

Bernard Baruch

#9. Then the coxswain called out, 'Ready all!' Joe turned and faced the rear of the boat, slid his seat forward, sank the white blade of his oar into the oil-black water, tensed his muscles, and waited for the command that would propel him forward into the glimmering darkness.

Daniel James Brown

#10. Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

Esther Hicks

#11. The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

Phillip Thomas

#12. Luckily i went out and just did it, successfully, before i was told that it can't be done!
Den-J

Denis John George

#13. It was more like the final piece in a puzzle: Even if it's missing, one can know its shape from the blank space it's meant to fill.

Steve Hockensmith

#14. The constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Alexander Hamilton

#15. In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

Harry S. Truman

#17. Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.

Shelley Jackson

#18. Don't cry for a man who's left you
the next one may fall for your smile.

Mae West

#19. To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward ...

Theodore Roethke

#20. Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#21. When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?

Vilhelm Moberg

#22. Wherever you are, that's your stage, your circle of influence. That's your talk show, that's where your power lies ... You have the power to change somebody's life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

Oprah Winfrey

#23. Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure?

Rosemary Mahoney

#24. He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the god damn boat, he'd want to know who the guy that was rowing it before he'd even get in.

J.D. Salinger

#25. You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Mary Oliver

#26. Step aboard and we will fly through the window, through the sky

Brian Wildsmith

#27. Not everyone wants this conventional little life you're rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it's time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid.

Zadie Smith

#28. Let the boat work - and not me!

Phillip Thomas

#29. To know your mind, to see your heart,to taste your pain, to touch your dreams, to trace your scars, and to worship your joy...is my sole interest.

Beth McGirt Adams

#30. but as an Indian, I find it far easier to forgive than to forget.

Shashi Tharoor

#31. This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.

Taron Egerton