";s:4:"text";s:5493:"You can’t keep goal with hair like that.” » Brian Clough“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” » Jimmy Dean“Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.” » Charles Cook“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” » Vincent Van Gogh“It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. They captain the ship for the United States, after all. But like the sailor at sea, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”“Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.” » Navjot Singh Sidhu“If one does not know to which port one is sailing no wind is favorable.” » Seneca“Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” » Samuel Johnson“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” » William Arthur Ward“I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.” » John Sergeant Wise“Where there is sea there is pirates.” » Greek Proverb“Ideals are like stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.” » Carl Schurz“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.” » Walter Scott“That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.” » Sir Francis Chichester – “The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.” » Samuel Butler” The wind that blows, the ship that goes and the girl that loves a sailor.”“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. Sea and Sky's Shipa and Sailing Quotes page features inspirational and thought provoking quotes about ships and sailing by the famous sailors who have braved the open ocean with their vessels. 512 Written Quotes. Hey! It is celebrated to recognize everything that has been directly or indirectly affected by sea transport.“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” » Brooks Atkinson“Of all the things that man has made, now is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.” » Henry Van Dyke“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” » Robin Lee Graham“They that go down to the sea in ships; and occupy their business in great waters; these men see the works of the Lord; and His wonders in the deep.” » Book of Common Prayer“I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” » Ricky Skaggs “The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid, and avoids the storm he cannot weather.”“Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.” » John Masefield“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.” » Thomas Carlyle“Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe.