Top 44 Your Sails Quotes
#1. It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.
Wes Walz
#2. 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
#3. I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Maggie Smith
#5. When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.
Trevor Rabin
#6. Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.
Napoleon Hill
#7. One sometimes must sail with the wind and sometimes against it, but the important thing is to keep your sails full.
Mark Beauregard
#8. Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous ... if you keep going you will get there.
Jesse Taylor
#10. The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise your sails.
Rabindranath Tagore
#11. You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.
Tony Robbins
#12. Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.
Barbara Ascher
#13. Lead yourself or someone else will. People can either be the wind on your sails or the anchor on your tail...you get to figure it out !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#14. You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.
John Assaraf
#15. Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Charles Buxton
#16. When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing.
Greg Plitt
#17. I'm a one-hundred-percent, made-in-Florida, dope-smugglin', time-sharin', spring-breakin', log-flumin', double-occupancy discount vacation. I'm a tall glass of orange juice and a day without sunshine. I'm the wind in your sails, the sun on your burn and the moon over Miami. I am the native.
Tim Dorsey
#20. you can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails. It was his way of reminding us that you can't control most of what happens in life. You can only control your reaction to it.
Kristen Proby
#21. Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
Khalil Gibran
#22. I don't believe in angels but the moon is now dead for me. The last glass of wine is gone before the thirst I'm suffering from. The blue grass lost its way running away from your sails.
Roque Dalton
#23. press-ganged', 'taking the wind out of your sails', 'shot across the bows', 'loose cannon', 'shipshape', 'batten down the hatches' belong more obviously to the sea. Others such as 'close quarters', 'cut and run', 'fathoming' something, 'broad in the beam' and the 'cut of your jib' take a moment
Ben Wilson
#25. You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
Green Day
#26. When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
Robert Breault
#27. 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.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#28. Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.
Fay Weldon
#29. You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.
Jeff Lemire
#31. Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles.
"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#32. Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves,
Walt Whitman
#33. Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.
Dave Barry
#34. The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence.
Patricia Lee Gauch
#35. A process of accretion. Barnacles growing on a wreck or a rock. I'd rather have a wreck than a ship that sails. Things attach themselves to wrecks. Strange fish find your wreck or rock to be a good feeding ground; after a while you've got a situation with possibilities.
Donald Barthelme
#36. May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#37. In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by the thoughts and emotions that which you harbor. Expand.
Will Barnes
#38. You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination
Paulo Coelho
#39. Seeking support from friends and and family is like having people gathered around at your deathbed. It's nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye.
Steven Pressfield
#40. People say write what you know, but I say write about what makes your blood race. Write about that, and your words will become sails filled with a strong wind.
Ellery Adams
#41. its Easy for going with every wind but if go the wrong direction, we ourselves will have to embarked the sails tightening for to go in a different and Good direction.
Jan Jansen
#42. 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
#43. It's pleasant to get used to the expensive, the soft, the comfortable. Once you're addicted, it's so easy to become a sycophant, to trim the sails of your judgment in order to be kept on. The next step is to change your work to please those in power, and that is death to the sculptor.
Irving Stone
#44. As your soul sails life's stormy sea,
only courage and love will set you free.
Ian Macgill
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