Top Sailing Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Sailing quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Cressida Cowell
Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.
- Cressida Cowell
Collection: Sailing
Image of Francis Chichester
To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."
- Francis Chichester
Collection: Sailing
Image of J. P. Morgan
I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.
- J. P. Morgan
Collection: Sailing
Image of Alex Blackwell
BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand
- Alex Blackwell
Collection: Sailing
Image of James Spithill
If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough
- James Spithill
Collection: Sailing
Image of Lewis Francis Herreshoff
It looks like frozen snot.
- Lewis Francis Herreshoff
Collection: Sailing
Image of James O. Fraser
I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.
- James O. Fraser
Collection: Sailing
Image of Christopher Columbus
I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.
- Christopher Columbus
Collection: Sailing
Image of Pete Goss
If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.
- Pete Goss
Collection: Sailing
Image of Walt Whitman
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
- Walt Whitman
Collection: Sailing
Image of William Booth
Let the business of the world take care of itself... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.
- William Booth
Collection: Sailing
Image of Fernando Pessoa
Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
- Fernando Pessoa
Collection: Sailing
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Sailing
Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
To reach a port we must set sail
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collection: Sailing
Image of Andrew Jackson
You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.
- Andrew Jackson
Collection: Sailing
Image of Elizabeth Bishop
Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.
- Elizabeth Bishop
Collection: Sailing
Image of Tracee Ellis Ross
Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Collection: Sailing
Image of J. P. Morgan
You have no right to own a yacht if you ask that question.
- J. P. Morgan
Collection: Sailing
Image of John Ruskin
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
- John Ruskin
Collection: Sailing
Image of Jimmy Buffett
I just thank God I don't live in a trailer.
- Jimmy Buffett
Collection: Sailing
Image of Johnny Depp
Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.
- Johnny Depp
Collection: Sailing
Image of Joseph Conrad
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.
- Joseph Conrad
Collection: Sailing
Image of Albert Einstein
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
- Albert Einstein
Collection: Sailing
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Sailing
Image of W. S. Gilbert
The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
- W. S. Gilbert
Collection: Sailing