Top 72 Wind Sail Quotes
#1. Carry me on and on to the edge of the earth, with children's laughter like a wind - full sail, then carry me beyond
Eowyn Ivey
#2. I'll always be there, Anna, in every ship you see sailing past. I'll be the wind in its sail.
Jade Parker
#3. The wind is rising and we must make sail. Anchors aweigh! We must be off!
Amitav Ghosh
#4. Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail. The party that tore itself apart over Vietnam in the 1960s cannot afford to tear itself apart today over budget cuts in basic social programs.
Edward Kennedy
#5. Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
Lowell Thomas
#6. Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river.
Rumi
#8. She could hear again the ripple of water, the flapping sail. She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft, gusty beating of the hot south wind. A subtle current of desire passed through her body, weakening her hold upon the brushes and making her eyes burn.
Kate Chopin
#9. A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. The wind of God is always blowing ... but you must hoist your sail.
Francois Fenelon
#11. Reason can no more influence the will, and operate as a motive, than the eyes which show a man his road can enable him to move from place to place, or that a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.
Richard Whately
#12. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
Ami Ayalon
#13. It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.
Tom Morrison
#14. When his mouth snaps shut a third time, I splash water in his face. Are you going to say something or are you trying to catch wind and sail?
Anna Banks
#15. Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Augustus Hare
#16. Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.
Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.
George Washington
#17. I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.
E.F. Schumacher
#18. My heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me ...
John Geddes
#19. A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her.
James Joyce
#20. On the wind his sail unfurled and away from our shores his ship drifted.
Celma Ribeiro
#22. Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails
Sharon G. Flake
#23. Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.
Fay Weldon
#24. Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David Hare
#25. Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.
Catherine Of Siena
#26. Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale
Is wild within me! what may quell
That sullen tempest? I must sail
Whither, O whither, who can tell!
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#28. When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.
Greg Plitt
#29. A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. The same wind blows on us all. The economic wind, the social wind, the political wind. The same wind blows on everybody. The difference in where you arrive in one year, three years, five years, the difference in arrival is not the blowing of the wind but the set of the sail.
Jim Rohn
#31. Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
E.F. Schumacher
#32. Things change," Daja said softly. "We change with them. We sail before the wind. We become adults. As adults, we keep our minds and our secrets hidden, and our wounds. It's safer.
Tamora Pierce
#33. One sometimes must sail with the wind and sometimes against it, but the important thing is to keep your sails full.
Mark Beauregard
#34. Everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.
Carlos Castaneda
#36. Nothing is here to stay
Everything has to begin and end
A ship in a bottle won't sail
All we can do is dream that the wind will blow us across the water
A ship in a bottle set sail
Dave Matthews
#37. Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?
Dana Burnet
#38. Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
Abigail Adams
#39. The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?
Swami Vivekananda
#40. On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day.
Rumi
#41. Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.
E.F. Schumacher
#43. I am the daughter of a tall, strong tree. My timber forms a ship, but it is anchorless, flagless. I set sail for the shade and the light; I drink the wind and forget all ports. To hell with freedom, gifted or seized; if in doubt, always endure alone.
Nina George
#44. Her heart ruffled like a wind torn sail, held, yet ripped.
Dorothy Adamek
#45. If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.
Jim Rohn
#46. Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
Ami Ayalon
#47. I sail on the ocean of possibilities with the wind of hope and the current of desires moving me to the shore of uncertainty.
Debasish Mridha
#48. I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.
Ricky Skaggs
#49. Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!
Tapan Ghosh
#50. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#51. Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days.
You have to sail with the winds are they are now.
Stefan Molyneux
#52. Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
George Chapman
#53. Down Time's quaint stream
Without an oar
We are enforced to sail
Our Port a secret
Our Perchance a Gale
What Skipper would
Incur the Risk
What Buccaneer would ride
Without a surety from the Wind
Or schedule of the Tide
Emily Dickinson
#54. Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are ...
John Denver
#55. You can try to steer your life in a certain direction all you want, but ultimately, the wind is in charge of your sail.
Claire Contreras
#56. s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under full sail, moving swiftly with the favorable wind and a perfect flood tide. Alarm guns sounded in New York. Soldiers
David McCullough
#57. Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.
Cyril Connolly
#58. Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
Robert Southwell
#59. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.
Annie Dillard
#60. He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#61. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#62. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
D.H. Lawrence
#63. Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
Cyril Connolly
#64. Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility ...
Christopher Cross
#65. 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
#66. It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.
Paul Ryan
#68. You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination
Paulo Coelho
#69. Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
Jack White
#70. Two things that lived separately and yet together: a brook and the sky, the wind and the water that coursed through both their veins. You needed both to sail. You needed both in tandem to achieve perfection.
Katy Regnery
#71. Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.
Chris Gardner
#72. The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
Charles Lindbergh
