Sailing Quotes: Inspirational Sayings for Sailors and Sea Lovers

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage"

George William Curtis, Author

"I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full"

Arthur Ashe, Athlete

"If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea"

John Updike, Novelist

"I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

"I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses"

Bo Derek, Actress

"As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be"

Ella Maillart, Writer

"I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price"

Amelia Earhart, Aviator

"Sailing is a journey of self-discovery, where you push yourself to new limits and discover what you're truly capable of"

Dennis Conner, Athlete

"Sailing is not just a hobby, it's a way of life that teaches you about the power of nature, the value of teamwork, and the beauty of the world around us"

Dennis Conner, Athlete

"Sailing is a timeless pursuit that has captured the hearts of people for centuries, and it will continue to do so for generations to come"

Dennis Conner, Athlete

"Winning the America's Cup is the ultimate goal in sailing, and it takes a combination of skill, teamwork, and determination to achieve it"

Dennis Conner, Athlete

"Sailing is a sport that requires not only physical strength, but mental agility and strategic thinking as well"

Dennis Conner, Athlete

"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century"

Dave Anderson, Writer

"We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself"

Martin Ryle, Scientist

"They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best"

Craig Ferguson, Comedian

"I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so"

Edward Heath, Leader

"A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail"

Sterling Hayden, Actor

"The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers"

Henry Walter Bates, Environmentalist

"The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing"

William Falconer, Poet

"The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind"

William Falconer, Poet