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75+ Best Sailing Quotes for Your Inner Sailor

The freedom that comes with casting off the lines and heading out into open water is something many authors, poets, and explorers have aimed to express in words.

This list contains the best sailing quotes, whether from a famous writer or an avid sailor.

Many of these famous quotes about sailing are inspirational, while others represent the challenges of a sailing lifestyle. Other sayings on the list are sailing metaphors for life – inspiration for all sailors, world travelers, and adventurers!

Find a specfic type of sailing quote in the sections below, or browse all the quotes.

Sail Away Quotes

Below are sailor sayings that express what it feels like to live on the ocean. These quotes make you want to cast off the lines and sail away with no plan for return to port.

1. “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” —  Joseph Conrad, Polish-British Writer

2. “I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea.” —  Alaine Gerbault, French Sailor

3. “Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” —  Van Morrison, Irish Singer-Songwriter

4. “Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” —  Amelia Earhart, American Aviation Pioneer & Author

5. “A man is never lost at sea.” —  Ernest Hemingway, American Writer

6. “It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” ―  Sir Francis Drake, English Explorer

7. “The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.” —   Joshua Slocum, First Person to Single-Hand Circumnavigate

8. “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.” — E.E. Cummings, American Poet & Author

9. “To young men contemplating a voyage, I’d say go.” — Joshua Slocum, First Person to Single-Hand Circumnavigate

Inspirational Sailing Quotes

These are our favorite sailing and sailboat quotes that capture the feeling of a day on the water.

10. “A bad day sailing is 100 times better than a good day at work.” —  Unknown

11. “Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul and spirit fly, into the mystic.” — Van Morrison, Northern Irish Singer & Songwriter

12. “It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.” — Vito Dumas, Argentine Solo Sailor & Circumnavigator

13. “You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed.” — David Sedaris, Theft by Finding: Diaries

14. “The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.” — Henry David Thoreau, American Poet & Philosopher

15. “On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.” — Rumi, Persian Poet

16. “Confronting a storm is like fighting God. All the powers in the universe seem to be against you and, in an extraordinary way, your irrelevance is at the same time both humbling and exalting.” — Francis LeGrande

Sailing Quotes About Life

These are our favorite sailing quotes that are metaphors for life and translate to its many challenges and struggles.

17. “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, Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter

18. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” ―  Louisa May Alcott, American Poet

19. “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” ―  Seneca, Roman Philosopher

20. “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” ― William Ernest Henley, English Poet & Writer

21. “Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.” —  Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

22. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ―  Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Philosopher

23. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” ―  William Arthur Ward, American Writer

24. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ―  Mark Twain, American Writer

25. “On life’s vast ocean, diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.” ―  Alexander Pope, English Poet

26. “One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.” —  Henry Miller, American Writer & Artist

27. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” —  Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President

28. “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

29. “Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.” ―  Joseph Conrad,   Polish-British Writer

30. “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather, American Writer

Cruising Quotes

These quotes are for the full-time cruisers living a life on the water. These are some of our favorite sayings about modern-day life on a sailboat.

31. “To be successful at sea, we must keep things simple.” ―   Pete Culler, Author & Renowned Wooden Boat Builder

32. “Go small, go simple, go now.” ―  Larry Pardey, Sailor & Writer

33. “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” —  Robin Lee Graham, American Sailor

34. “The single commandment of anchoring is ‘thou shall create scope.'” ― Reese Palley, Art Dealer & Circumnavigator

35. “The charm of singlehanded cruising is not solitude, but independence.” — Claud Worth, Master Mariner & Writer

36. “The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.” —  Dom Degnon, Yacht Broker & Freelance Writer

37. “Cruising is fixing your boat in exotic locations.” —  Unknown

38. “Home is where the anchor drops.” —  Unknown

39. “If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.”   —  Pete Goss, British Sailor

40. “The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one’s imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.” —  Jimmy Cornell, British Sailor & Author

41. “It’s remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.” —  Ernest K. Gann, American Sailor & Author

Sailing and Adventure Quotes from Novels

These quotes are from some of our favorite novels. They encapsulate life on the water, the sailing lifestyle, and seeking adventure!

42. “Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.” —  Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

43. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.” ―  Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

44. “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” ―  Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild

45. “The truths of the sea, like the truths of the soul, cannot be reduced to numbers.” ― Webb Chiles, The Ocean Waits

46. “There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of ’em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you’d much better not.” —  Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Quotes About Ships

Whether as vessels of exploration, symbols of resilience, or metaphors for life’s journey, ships have long captured the esscense of the adventurer’s spirit.

47. “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.” ―  John A. Shedd, American Author

48. “The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.” — John Rousmaniere, American Author

49. “It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a ship needs but what a ship is…what the Black Pearl really is…is freedom.” —  Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

50. “A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be.” ― Aubrey de Selincourt, English Writer

51. “Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid.” — Robert N. Rose, Poet

Ocean Quotes

These quotes are specifically about the ocean or the sea. If you are a sailor or beach lover, I’m sure you love to romanticize the sea, and these quotes will resonate with you.

52. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ―  Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Naval Officer

53. “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.” ―  John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President

54. “Dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” ―  Christy Ann Martine, Canadian Poet

55. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.” ―  Sandy Gingras, Writer & Illustrator

56. “Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.” ―  Sylvia Earle, American Marine Biologist

57. “If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.” ―  Jimmy Buffett, American Singer-Songwriter

58. “The sea is a desert of waves, a wilderness of water.” —  Langston Hughes, American Poet

Funny Sailing Quotes

This selection features funny sailing quotes from poets, writers, and modern-day cruisers, that explore the lighter side of life at sea.

59. “Sailing – The fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense while being cold, wet, and miserable.” — Irv Heller

60. “The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.” — Carl Sandburg, American Poet

61. “Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.” —  Sir Francis Chichester, Sailor & Author (First Man to Single-Hand Circumnavigate Non-Stop)

62. “Later down the road of life, I made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.” — Jimmy Buffett, American Singer-Songwriter (A Pirate Looks at Fifty)

63. “Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port, and the other was an atrocious liar.” —  Don Bamford, Sailor & Author

64. “The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.” — Ted Turner, Entrepreneur & America’s Cup Winner

65. “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” ‍‍— Brooks Atkinson, American Theatre Critic

66. “When the draught of your vessel exceeds the depth of the water, you are most assuredly, aground.” — Ian Walsh

67. “A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway.” — Webb Chiles , Writer & Sailor

68. “Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified, I know.” — Donald Hamilton, American Writer

69. “If we get lost, we’ll just pull in somewhere and ask directions.” — Captain Ron Rico (Captain Ron)

70. “The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.” — Eric Hiscock, British Sailor & Author

Sailing Quotes from Movies

These unforgettable sailing quotes are all from the silver screen, where the sea has played a starring role in captivating audiences for decades.

71. “A diesel loves her oil same as a sailor loves rum.” — Captain Ron Rico (Captain Ron)

72. “It’s not just sails and knots, it’s seeing where you’re going in your mind. Knowing where you are by knowing where you’ve been.” — Maui (Moana)

73. “You know, there have been more people in space than have sailed around the world. I didn’t even know it was something you can do, but you can, and I want to. ‘Cause I’m an adventurer.” — Jessica Watson (True Spirit)

74. “You can’t run from the wind. You trim your sails, face the music, and keep going.”  — Captain Christopher “Skipper” Sheldon (White Squall)

75. “Now…bring me that horizon.” —  Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)

76. “But it ain’t all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flying is? Love. You can learn all the math in the ‘Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens. Makes her a home.” — Captain Malcolm Reynolds (Serenity)

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Id rather be lost at sea then found at work…..Anon.

I can definitely relate to this one!

The cost of good navigation is constant vigilance.

All sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable. They live in the varying outer weather and inhale its fickleness – and when retained for any object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary interests and employments should intervene to hold them healthily suspended for the final dash. – Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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The 74 Best Sailing Quotes

Ever since its inception, sailing has been linked to a sense of freedom and drive for adventure out on the sea. For many centuries, sailors were considered to be bold and courageous people willing to risk their lives for fortune and honor.

Many people have tried to express the freedom and enjoyment of sailing through words and quotes.

Many great men and women have fallen in love with sailing over the years, giving birth to a practically endless series of funny, happy and inspirational quotes.

Below you will find a comprehensive list of our personal favorites.

Inspirational Sailing Quotes

Our favorite inspirational sailing quotes to get you inspired and motivated are below.

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ‍ ‍-Mark Twain

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore” ‍ ‍-Christopher Columbus

“Sailors, with their built-in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.” ‍ ‍-Nicholas Monsarrat

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” ‍ ‍-William Arthur Ward

“A bad day sailing is 100 times better than a good day at work.” ‍ ‍-An Unknown Sailor

“Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little” ‍ ‍-Paul Carvel

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” ‍ ‍-Willa Cather

“I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” ‍ ‍-John Masefield

“To be successful at sea we must keep things simple.” ‍ ‍-Pete Culler

“The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.” ‍ ‍-Ernest Hemingway

“Nothing comes sailing by itself” ‍ ‍-Alexander Dale Oen

“The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself” ‍ ‍-John Rousmaniere

“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

“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.” ‍ ‍-William Sheed

“To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go” ‍ ‍-Joshua Slocum

“To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives.” ‍ ‍-Carleton Mitchell

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.” ‍ ‍-Thomas Merton

“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.” ‍ ‍-Alain Gerbault

“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” ‍ ‍-Joseph Conrad

“To reach a port we must set sail - Sail, not tie at anchor - Sail, not drift.” ‍ ‍-Franklin D. Roosevelt

“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

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” ‍ ‍-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” ‍ ‍-Fitzhugh Dodson

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” ‍ ‍-Syrus Publilius

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” ‍ ‍-African proverb

“Can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” ‍ ‍-Ricky Skaggs

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn topsail in high winds.” ‍ ‍-Aristotle Onassis

“He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.” ‍ ‍-Hammond Ines

“Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.” ‍ ‍-Dennis Conner

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.” ‍ ‍-Augustus Hare

“No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.” ‍ ‍-Felix Riesenberg

“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.” ‍ ‍-Ovid

“There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.” ‍ ‍-Thomas Gibbons

“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” ‍ ‍-Robin Graham

“The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.” ‍ ‍-Dom Degnon

“I cannot not sail” ‍ ‍-E. B. White

“The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance” ‍ ‍-Annie Van De Wiele

“When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.” ‍ ‍-Matshona Dhliwayo

“In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.” ‍ ‍-John Ray

Happy Sailing Quotes

Below are our favorite sailing quotes that will make you happy.

“Never in my life before have I experienced such beauty, and fear at the same time.” ‍ ‍-Ellen MacArthur

“The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.” ‍ ‍-Joshua Slocum

“Mackerel skies and mares tails, soon will be time to shorten sails” ‍ ‍-Sailors Proverb

“Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.” ‍ ‍-George Matthew Adams

“Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.” ‍ ‍-Charles Buxton

“Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.” ‍ ‍-Dave Anderson

“I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.” ‍ ‍-Bernard Moitessier

“You haven't lived until you've sailed.” ‍ ‍-David Sedaris

“It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” ‍ ‍-Sir Francis Drake

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ‍ ‍-Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.” ‍ ‍-Edmund Gibbon

“Sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway.” ‍ ‍-Webb Chiles

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, 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.

“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.” ‍ ‍-George William Curtis

“For the most part, a sailboat navigates through its world of wind and water not leaving a single trace of its passage. Nothing is consumed. Nothing is altered. The winds and the water are left in exactly the same condition for the next user. Sailing is forever.” ‍ ‍-Michael B. McPhee

“Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.” ‍ ‍-Sophocles

“The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting ones imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.” ‍ ‍-Jimmy Cornell

“The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat” ‍ ‍-Francis Herreshoff

“And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.” ‍ ‍-Bob Bitchin

“Sail Now, Work Later” ‍ ‍-An Unknown Sailor

Funny Sailing Quotes

Below are our favorite funny sailing quotes that will make you laugh.

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.” ‍ ‍-Alex Blackwell

“Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.” ‍ ‍-Sir Francis Chichester

“When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land.” ‍ ‍-Dr. Samuel Johnson

“The cure for anything is saltwater - sweat, tears, or the sea.” ‍ ‍-Isak Dinesen

“Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.” ‍ ‍-Charles Davis

“Sailing – The fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense while being cold, wet and miserable.” ‍ ‍-Irv Heller

“The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.” ‍ ‍-Eric Hiscock

“Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port and the other was an atrocious liar.” ‍ ‍-Don Bamford

“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” ‍ ‍-Brooks Atkinson

“Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.” ‍ ‍-Lin Pardey

Sad Sailing Quotes

Below are our favorite sad sailing quotes that are deeply thoughtful.

“As we sail through life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because calm waters won't make a skillful sailor.” ‍ ‍-Unknown

“The ocean has taken everything from me and yet I still love her.” ‍ ‍-Unknown

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.” ‍ ‍-Jean-Paul Sartre

These are our favorite sailing quotes to get you inspired, motivated and happy.

Some of these quotes are deeply thoughtful whilst others are more light- hearted and funny.

What's your favorite quote?

The 101 Most Inspiring Sailing Quotes For Your Next Adventure

Looking for the best sailing quotes.

Sailing is one of the oldest and most captivating activities in history, so there are a whole lot of sailing quotes all over the internet. You’ll find quotes from famous authors, poets, songwriters, and actors, everyone has something to say about sailing and we don’t blame them!

With every passing year, more people are turning to sailing as a way to find respite from their everyday routines – and as they do, an increasing number of inspiring sailing songs and quotes about sailing have been shared by adventurers around the world.

Perhaps we need to get adding to the list as we embark on our fifth year of living on a sailboat!

In this blog post we’ll explore some of these sailing quotes. Most of them are great for Instagram captions (I know, I’ve used a lot of them!) or you can write them in the front of books when you gift them to people.

Or you can just read and enjoy! It’s totally up to you!

Famous Sailing Quotes

These are timeless sailing quotes that you’re likely to see over and over again, and for good reason. Some of these famous quotes are our absolute favourites!

• “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.” John A. Shedd, American Author
• “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” Louisa May Alcott, American Poe t
• “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain, American Writer
• “One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller, American Writer & Artist
• “Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” Van Morrison, Irish Singer-Songwriter
• “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” William Arthur Ward, American Writer
• “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President
• “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer
• “A man is never lost at sea.” Ernest Hemingway, American Writer
• “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” Seneca, Roman Philosopher
• “A bad day sailing is 100 times better than a good day at work.” Unknown
• “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” William Ernest Henley
• “How inappropriate it is to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Sea.” Arthur C. Clarke
• “The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid and avoids the storm he cannot weather.” Unknown

Sailing Quotes About Freedom

These quotes will be sure to instill that feeling of freedom and adventure that you find when you’re out sailing. Warning – reading these may well encourage you to head off on a sailing adventure of your own!

15. “It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” Sir Francis Drake, English Explorer

16. “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, Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter

17. “I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea.” Alaine Gerbault, French Sailor

18. “The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.” Joshua Slocum, First Person to Single-Hand Circumnavigate

19. “Home is where the anchor drops.” Unknown

20. “It’s remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.” Ernest K. Gann, American Sailor & Author

21 “On life’s vast ocean, diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.” Alexander Pope, English Poet

22 “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” Brooks Atkinson

23. “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” Joseph Conrad, Polish-British Writer

24. “Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” Amelia Earhart, American Aviation Pioneer & Author

25. “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.” E.E. Cummings, American Poet & Author

26. “A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway.” Webb Chiles

27. “The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.” Henry David Thoreau, American Poet & Philosopher

28. “On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.” Rumi

Weathering Storms Quotes

Sailors face some pretty tough conditions out there, and some great quotes have come from those reflecting on the strength and courage that storms at sea have given them. Sailing can be dangerous . These sailing quotes are great life quotes as well.

29. “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” Willa Cather, American Writer

30. “Confronting a storm is like fighting God. All the powers in the universe seem to be against you and, in an extraordinary way, your irrelevance is at the same time both humbling and exalting.” Francis LeGrande

31. “The most challenging times bring us the most empowering lessons.” Karen Salmansohn

32. “The sea finds out everything you did wrong.” Francis Stokes

33. “Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.” Joseph Conrad, Polish-British Writer

34. “The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.” Carl Sandburg

Cruising Quotes

Our favourite sailing quotes sum up what life is really like as a full-time cruiser. It’s not always glamorous, but it’s always an adventure.

If you’re thinking of becoming a full-time liveaboard then we’ve got the ultimate guide for you . Go from landlubber to salty sea dog in no time!

35. “The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.” John Rousmaniere, American Author

36. “There is no better tool or equipment you can have on board than a well-trained crew.” Larry Pardey , Sailor

37. “A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be.” Aubrey de Selincourt

38. “Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port and the other was an atrocious liar.” Don Bamford, Sailor & Author

39. “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” Ernest Hemingway

40. “If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.” Pete Goss, British Sailor

41. “To be successful at sea, we must keep things simple.” Pete Culler, Author & Renowned Wooden Boat Builder

42. “Go small, go simple, go now.” Larry Pardey, Sailor & Writer

43. “To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives.” Carleton Mitchell

44. “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” Robin Lee Graham, American Sailor

45. “The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.” Dom Degnon, Freelance Writer

46. “Cruising is fixing your boat in exotic locations.” Unknown

Sailing Quotes From Novels

Nothing quite matches the feeling of waking up on a sailboat or yacht in the middle of an ocean and living life at its most adventurous.

Sailing quotes from books and novels demonstrate that this kind of experience has been inspiring adventure seekers for decades, expressed by writers who want to capture the unique freedom only found while sailing.

Whether you are just getting started with your sailing journey, or have a lifetime’s worth of experiences, these classic quotes will reconnect you to what makes such an activity so special!

47. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ernest Hemingway

48. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.” Cheryl Strayed

49. “Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

50. “Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid.” Robert N. Rose 

51. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

52. “I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.” Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

53. “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild

Sailing Quotes From The Movies

A love for sailing often stirs within us when the wind picks up and we smell the salty sea. Movies have captured the allure of setting sail, taking that adventurous voyage across a vast ocean, and embracing what lies beyond.

Here is a collection of some of our favorite sailing quotes from the movies – motivating you to get out on open waters!

Whether you’re trying to motivate yourself to jump on an upcoming journey or just appreciate a beautiful day at sea, these sailing lines will undoubtedly hit close to home.

Here’s your invitation: suit up, let down your sails, drop anchor, and join us as we explore these famous words with our inspirational takeaways. Let’s set sail!

Top tip: Watch some of the best sailing YouTube channels to get inspired!

54. “Not all treasure is silver and gold.” Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

55. “They say home is where the heart is, and for most people that consists of four walls and a welcome mat. But for me, it’s the ocean, with the warmth of the sun on my skin.” Bethany Hamilton Soul Surfer

56. “Now…bring me that horizon.” Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

57. “The ocean doesn’t help you. You help yourself!” Dwayne Johnson (as Maui), Moana 

58. “It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a ship needs but what a ship is…what the Black Pearl really is…is freedom.” Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

Quotes About The Ocean

With the vastness of the ocean and its many mysteries, it’s no surprise that people have been writing about this enchanting body of water for centuries.

From ancient Greek philosophers to modern-day songwriters, each quote captures something different and provides an interesting perspective on this seemingly endless expanse of blue.

Whether you’re looking for inspiration on how to appreciate the beauty of nature or simply need a reminder to savor life’s little moments, read ahead to discover some insightful quotes about the ocean.

Or if you’re looking for something more short and snappy you’ll be wanting the best ocean captions for Instagram .

59. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Naval Officer

60. “When your life is moving too fast and you find yourself in chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset.” Christy Ann Martine

61. “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.” John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President

62. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Philosopher

63. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.” Sandy Gingras, Writer & Illustrator

64. “Dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” Christy Ann Martine, Canadian Poet

65. “If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.” Jimmy Buffett, American Singer-Songwriter

66. “Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.” Sylvia Earle, American Marine Biologist

67. “The sea is a desert of waves, a wilderness of water.” Langston Hughes, American Poet

Quotes To Encourage You To Untie The Docklines

Have you ever had a burning desire to strike out on your own but were too afraid or held back by the safety and security of staying within the confines of what’s comfortable?

Maybe it was a job, maybe it was a relationship, or perhaps you yearned for exploration – whatever it may be, know that you’re not alone. The uncertainty and fear associated with leaving comfort zones is felt by many.

To provide some motivation on your journey, here are some inspiring quotes to encourage you to untie those docklines and let the current take hold!

68. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” T.S. Eliot

69. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.” Michael Jordan

70. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” Lewis Carroll

71. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” Rachel Wolchin

72. “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” Helen Keller

73. “You can. You should. And if you are brave enough to start, you will.” Stephen King

74. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” Roy T. Bennett

75. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” Mary Anne Radmacher

76. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” Anonymous

77. “And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.” Bob Bitchin (Letters from the Lost Soul)

78. “You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin

79. “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” Jaime Lyn

Short Sailing Quotes For Instagram

Feel free to pair these quotes with your favorite sailing photos for a touch of inspiration and adventure on your Instagram feed! ⛵️📸✨

80. “Sail away into the horizon and let your worries drift away.” ⛵️✨

81. “Life’s roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors.” ⚓️💪

82. “Smooth seas never made skilled sailors.” 🌊⛵️

83. “Every adventure requires a first step. Mine was setting sail.” 🌟⛵️

84. “Find your direction and set sail towards your dreams.” 🌅⛵️

85. “The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul.” 🌊❤️

86. “Sail with the wind, explore the unknown, and embrace the journey.” 🌬️⛵️

87. “In the waves of change, we find our true direction.” 🌊🧭

88. “Life is better on a boat.” 🚤💙

89. “Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ⛵️✨

90. “The ocean is calling, and I must go.” 🌊⛵️

91. “Saltwater heals everything.” 🌊💙

92. “Sailors have the best stories.” ⚓️📖

93. “Life is a journey. Enjoy the sail.” ⛵️✨

94. “Let the sea set you free.” 🌊⚓️

95. “Wind in my sails, salt in my veins.” 🌬️⛵️

96. “Sail more, worry less.” ⛵️😌

97. “Sailing is the ultimate freedom.” ⛵️🌅

98. “Adventure awaits where the sea meets the sky.” 🌊🌌

99. “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor, but it sure makes for a great day on the water.” 🌊⛵️

100. “Life’s a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” 🎶⛵️

101. “Happiness comes in waves.” 🌊😊

Conclusion: The Best Sailing Quotes

The best sailing quotes can provide guidance to help any sailor out on the open sea. These quotes range from statements of encouragement to lessons of caution; they provide advice and inspiration that can be appreciated by anyone who loves sailing and exploring the open water.

Even seasoned sailors may find the motivation to push further in the waves after reading these insightful words. You never know when you may need a bit of extra courage and resolve to reach your goals.

No matter what your sailing aspirations are, keep peace within yourself, sail with passion, and hold high hopes for all your upcoming voyages!

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130 Sailing and Love Quotes to Help You Navigate Life's Sea of Emotions

Quotes about sailing and love serve as powerful reminders of the profound beauty and challenges that life's journeys bring. Like sailing, love is a voyage, filled with calm seas and stormy weather, demanding patience, resilience, and courage. Isn't it beautiful how sailing and love mirror each other in so many ways? These quotes encapsulate the essence of both sailing and love, acting as a guiding light, steering us through life's ups and downs.

Famous Sailing And Love Quotes

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I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault 271

Wisdom sails with wind and time. — John Florio 23

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. — Jimmy Buffett 160

Sail while the breeze blows, wind and tide wait for no man. — Danish Proverbs 53

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's. — Bernard Moitessier 35

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. — John Edward Masefield 31

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. — Alexander Pope 44

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 85

Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. — Thomas Gray 53

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails. — Joshua Slocum 28

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. — William Falconer 42

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, Jr. 77

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does. — Alan Villiers 45

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 166

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. — Joseph Conrad 62

• I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat. — Barbara Brown Taylor
• Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. — Jimmy Buffett
• I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. — Louisa May Alcott
• I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship . — Louisa May Alcott
• Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck. — Michel Serres
• The love boat has crashed against the everyday. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
• It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake
• Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton
• Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find." — Walt Whitman
• Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will. — Venerable Bede

Sailing And Love Image Quotes

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 321

Smell the sea and feel the sky. — Van Morrison 300

You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all. — Bernard Moitessier 203

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett 164

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. — John F. Kennedy 89

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. — Van Morrison 78

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester 60

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. — Charlie Cook 59

I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed. — Christopher Columbus 54

My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk. — Bernard Moitessier 52

When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing. — Greg Plitt 152

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. — Hermann von Helmholtz 104

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J. R. R. Tolkien 87

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. — Elizabeth Edwards 75

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 60

I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings. — John Burroughs 44

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs 43

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea — Bernard Moitessier 33

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc 28

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 28

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson 84

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. — Sterling Hayden 59

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul. — Jimmy Buffett 50

The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward. — Ramakrishna 48

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis 48

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself. — Vito Dumas 48

There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him. — Errol Flynn 45

The only way to get a good crew is to marry one. — Eric Hiscock 45

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones 44

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat 44

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. — Thomas Wolfe 89

And the voices in the waves are always whispering to Florence, in their ceaseless murmuring, of love - of love, eternal and illimitable, not bounded by the confines of this world, or by the end of time, but ranging still, beyond the sea, beyond the sky, to the invisible country far away! — Charles Dickens 49

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity. — Thomas Gibbons 42

I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. — Hugo Vihlen 41

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together. — Thomas Fleming Day 41

The sea hath no king but God alone. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti 27

I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port — Assata Shakur 25

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain 23

At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. — Herman Melville 19

And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee. — Anne Bronte 16

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much. — Robin Lee Graham 150

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom 116

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. — Jean Batten 112

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. — John Enoch Powell 82

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea. — Ovid 82

O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then. — Luqman 80

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa 64

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 61

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum 58

Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day. — Miyamoto Musashi 55

Go with the wind, you know, like a sailboat. I think that's really important when it comes to peace… inner peace especially. You can't help anyone else if you don't have it together for yourself. — Jhene Aiko 156

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 62

I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers. — Albert Einstein 45

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore. — Sterling Hayden 44

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. — Lewis Francis Herreshoff 32

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea. — Whoopi Goldberg 25

Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again! — Jim Moore 20

In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world. — Albert Einstein 13

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic. — P. J. O'Rourke 11

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second. — Nina Simone 10

People Writing About Sailing And Love

I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility. where suffering and pain do not exist, where we give praises for our joy and happiness, where our Love interwines with Love for all things. — Rumi 34

The world keeps turnin' It gets merry like a merry go 'round It gets cold like a frozen winter Well I change like summer fall But I know love is all in all Seeds we're always sowing The grace is always blowing We've just got to lift the sail And we're bound to hit the shore We'll finally calm this storm. — Trevor Hall 29

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville 15

There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life. — Edith Wharton 15

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 14

I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean. — Karolina Kurkova 13

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living. — Ernest K. Gann 11

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search. — Friedrich Nietzsche 9

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. — William Shakespeare 6

There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!' — Niecy Nash 5

For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do. — Henry David Thoreau 4

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 3

By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.] — Ovid 3

Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3

Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not. — Ben Jonson 3

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment. — Martin Laird 2

Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town. — Charles Kingsley 2

At fourteen, my sister sailed away from me into a place I’d never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows. — Alice Sebold 2

WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray. — Walt Whitman 1

When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it. — Clive James 1

Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails. — Lord Byron 1

I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed. — Bill Watterson 1

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 1

I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset. — Larry Ellison 1

At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the bathroom was one day away from evolving into sentient life. I folded the note into an airplane and sailed it across the room. It ended up perched jauntily on top of the ancient television. It looked good there and I left it as a tribute to freedom-loving fungi everywhere. — Rob Thurman 1

Patience, though I have not The thing that I require,I must of force, God wot,Forbear my most desire;For no ways can I findTo sail against the wind.Patience, do what they willTo work me woe or spite,I shall content me stillTo think both day and night;To think and hold my peace,Since there is no redress.Patience, withouten blame,For I offended nought,I know they know the same,Though they have changed their thought.Was ever thought so movedTo hate that it hath loved?Patience of all my harm,For fortune is my foe;Patience must be the charmTo heal me of my woe.Patience without offenceIs a painful patience. — Sir Thomas Wyatt 0

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore. — Connie Nielsen 0

I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her. — Charles Dickens 0

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around. — Spike Jonze 0

Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life. — Marita Golden 0

There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent. — Conor Oberst 0

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore. — Henry David Thoreau 0

When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps. — Louisa May Alcott 0

You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar. — Samuel Johnson 0

Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth. — Humphrey Bogart 0

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs -- I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are. — Rob Bell 0

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right? — John Lennon 0

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville 0

who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves — E. E. cummings 0

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings. — D. H. Lawrence 0

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love? — Rick Moody 0

A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail. — Marge Piercy 0

You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable. — W. Somerset Maugham 0

What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face. — Kristin Cashore 0

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Whether you are just starting out and learning how to sail or have completed a world circumnavigation like us , sometimes it helps to be reminded why we do this. There are many benefits to the cruising life, and some inspirational words always help me get there. And at the moment, they make me miss cruising! That’s why I’ve compiled a list of over fifty sailing quotes to remind me how great – or how impactful, awe-inspiring, and essential the cruising life can be.

Are you just starting out? Or are you in the slumps about cruising? I hope some of these quotes about the sailing and cruising life will make you laugh, think, or even, dare I say it, want to go sailing.

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Inspirational Boat Quotes

“To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” ―  Ricky Skaggs

“You must never despise the port you were born because no matter how small or how bad it is, it is the place you have started sailing to the universe!” ―  Mehmet Murat ildan

“We each have our oceans and seas that we travel on.” ―  Anthony T Hincks

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” ― Helen Keller

“We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.” ― John F Kennedy

“I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” ― John Masefield

Dark Subjects

“She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.” ― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“Sometimes I pretend I’m an anchor because there’s a difference between sinking and drowning.” ―  R.I.D. Inkskinned

“When  Predator  sailed into war, she  sang . The rapid winds and rising shrieks suddenly blended into a single harmonious tone. Lines in the rigging and the yards and the masts themselves quivered in time, and began giving off their own notes of music, in harmony with one another. As the speed increased, the chord rose and rose, and built and  built , until it reached a crescendo of pure, eerie, inhuman fury. Grimm  felt  the music rise around him, felt the ship straining eagerly to her task, and his own heart raced in fierce exultation in time with her. Every line of the ship, every smudge upon her decks, every stain upon the leathers of his aeronauts leapt into his mind in vibrant detail. He could feel the ship’s motion, forward and down, could feel the wind of her passage, could feel the rising terror of his crew. One of the men screamed–one of them always did–and then the entire crew joined in with  Predator , shrieking their battle cries together with their ship’s. The ship would not fail them–Grimm knew it; he felt it, the way he could feel sunlight on his face or the rake of wind in his hair.” ―  Jim Butcher,  The Aeronaut’s Windlass

“So there you have it: hearing voices at sea is not a pathological condition. It’s quite normal. Welcome to the world of illusions at sea. Of mirages, looming, towering, stooping and sinking. Of moons that change size, suns that change shape, horizons that bend, lights that change colour, and sounds that play hide and seek. Of waves that speak, ships that effervesce and whales that turn into baby elephants. For the sea has a lobsterpot full of tricks and illusions to confuse and beguile even the most rational 21st century sailor.” ―  Nic Compton,  Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea

“For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may be a very strong one.” ―  Homer

“Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.” ―  Richelle E. Goodrich,  Making Wishes

Practical Sailing Quotes

“Go small, go simple, go now” ―  Larry Pardey,  Cruising in Seraffyn

“She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used ‘stow’ instead of ‘tidy’ for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.” ―  Philip Pullman,  The Golden Compass

“A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea.” ―  Matshona Dhliwayo

Humorous Yacht Sayings

“Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don’t like them. Can’t sell kids.” ―  Lin Pardey,  Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and Other Wildlife

“For those of you who wish to get a feel for it, get in the car and bring it up to fifty miles an hour and then stick your head and arms outside and, while driving, try to fold up a simple bath towel in the wind” ―  Gary Paulsen,  Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats

“Charter boats are like books with no covers.” ―  Tania Aebi

“One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.” ―  Alec Wilkinson,  The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

“The winds of fortune tend to favour the sails of those who politely yell out to it, ‘Nice to meet you!” ―  Nabil Sabio Azadi

“You don’t throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.” ―  Matshona Dhliwayo

The Joys of Sailing Quotes

“Seas were meant to be sailed by those with salt in their veins, and love in their heart.” ―  Anthony T.Hincks

“I wanted freedom, open air, adventure. I found it on the sea.” ― Alain Gerbault

“Sailing unties the knots in my mind.” ― Al Noble

To some it’s just water. To me, it’s where I regain my sanity. ― Anonymous

“A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be.” ― Aubrey de Selincourt

“There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet – except in dreams.” ―  Jerome K. Jerome,  Three Men in a Boat

“Just because a sea is calm doesn’t mean that you can believe in its stillness.” ―  Anthony T. Hincks

“When I’m out sailing, I don’t wonder what heaven is like because I know.” ―  Anthony T. Hincks

It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. ― Sir Francis Drake

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. ― Jacques Yves Cousteau

There’s nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him. ― Errol Flynn

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be Pirates” —Mark Twain

“That’s what a ship is, you know—it’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a ship needs. But what a ship is, really is, is freedom.” ― Captain Jack Sparrow, “Pirates of the Caribbean”

“You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed” ―  David Sedaris,  Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002

“Sometimes you need to tether your boats to stop them from following your dreams.” ―  Anthony T. Hincks

There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. ― Kenneth Grahame

“The ocean’s currents are a turbulent emotion which man has yet to come to terms with.” ―  Anthony T. Hincks

“If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves!” ―  Mehmet Murat ildan

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” ― Aristotle Onassis

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. ― William Shedd

“Storms draw out something out of us that calm seas don’t.” ― Bill Hybels

“I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.” ― Bernard Moitessier

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

“The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you’re sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.” ―  Richelle E. Goodrich,  Making Wishes

“The wind does not change, the wind only blows and gusts, and it swells and swirls, and it whispers.” ―  Christopher X. Shade,  The Good Mother of Marseille

“Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.” ―  Sara Sheridan,  On Starlit Seas

“A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.” ―  Matshona Dhliwayo

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” ― Louisa May Alcott

Distant Horizons

“The wind tousled his hair, and Dain’s chest loosed a little as his gaze broke from the wooden maid to follow a breeze-blown gull toward the horizon. The distant salmon skies dipped over the rim of the sea, and for the first time since boarding, he wondered where the waves might take him.” ―  Micheline Ryckman,   The Maiden Ship

“I hate the strange feeling of wanting to be in two places at once, like a sailor who misses the sea as much as he misses dry land.” ― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of clearing up. After each one looms another, whose shores are even more attractive, more suggestive. Certainly, it requires strength and perseverance to get to windward of problems, but there is no greater delight than to reach new shores, and even to sail, as Camoëns says, “through seas that keel has never cut before.” If you will now open a bank-account of attention for me, I foretell sun-smitten landscapes and promise archipelagoes.” ―  José Ortega y Gasset

“But that’s how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn’t enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.” ―  Carsten Jensen,  We, the Drowned

“At the end of the day…we are anchoring into the peaceful lagoon, smiling at the majestic sun and its flirting rays, slowly slipping into the glittering ballroom of immense night skies, sipping on the platinum moon liquor under the blues of rippling waves kissing my golden foot hanging over the board of gently rocking boat, and diving into the bed of galaxies whispering magical stories of their eternal lives connecting souls…till the dawn…” ―  Oksana Rus

“And there’s that one particular harbour Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within” ― Jimmy Buffett

“Midnight sail and moonlight. I remember sunset, and gentle breeze. Leaving the city lights behind, and gazing at the moon. Mountains of clouds. Waves slapping our boat. It was easy to forget that love has no direction, or need for compass. Let it guide you to its destination.” ―  Fidelis O Mkparu

“Cold November nights. It feels as if summer never happened. The beauty of setting sun, moon, and stars. Sailing to nowhere, but finding happiness in our togetherness. Never forget what we are. Stranded hearts.” ― Fidelis O. Mkparu, Love’s Affliction

“The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto the dark beach, Simmons declared, ‘There can be no better place in the world than this.’ Henderson had to agree. The beach was beautiful. The stars lit the sand and balmy air rode in as the waves washed up on paradise” ―  Sara Sheridan,  On Starlit Seas

“There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the Pacific can ever offer — a ship in full sail edging her way through the blue waters.” ―  Tom Neale,  An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island

“Life on the blue part of the globe for eight years had suited me – the wild open spaces, the bliss of buoyancy, the volatile, soul-powered wind. Sailing had struck a nerve both primal and poetic. On and near the ocean life made sense, It made every sense work.” ―  Kaci Cronkhite

“A true sailor is one who finds love in every port.” ―  Tapan Ghosh

“Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.” ―  Roselle Mercier Montgomery

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. ‍ ― Brooks Atkinson

“Simply sailing in a new direction you could enlarge the world” ―  Allen Curnow

“We didn’t make it around the world, but we were able to wrap the world around us.” ―  Janis Couvreux,  Sail Cowabunga!: A Family’s 10 Years at Sea

“It had occurred to her many times that on board it didn’t matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book – word by word – or crossing a country – step by step – each minute had to be lived moment by moment.” ―  Sara Sheridan,  On Starlit Seas

The Cruising Lifestyle

“The cruising life isn’t for all of us. It isn’t even for most of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival.” ―  Jim Trefethen,  The Cruising Life

“What do you do?” is not a question asked to define someone, because out here we’re all working the same jobs: yachties, mechanics, navigators, weather-readers, fishermen, adventure travelers, storytellers.” ―  Torre DeRoche,  Love with a Chance of Drowning

“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” ― Robin Lee Graham

“Maybe you’re getting into the rhythm of sailing life,” says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. “You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won’t go your way.” ―  Melissa C. Walker,  Unbreak My Heart

“For the most part, a sailboat navigates through its world of wind and water not leaving a single trace of its passage. Nothing is consumed. Nothing is altered. The winds and the water are left in exactly the same condition for the next user. Sailing is forever.” ― Michael B. McPhee

Quotes On Love & Crew

“We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.” ―  Seth Adam Smith

“He stared at her hard and long, as if he were gauging a cloudbank that might be worth the trouble to sail around rather than through.” ―  A.S. Peterson,  Fiddler’s Green

“That’s what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don’t tell her. You have to remember always that she’s the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.” ―  Michael Morpurgo,  Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.” ― Eric Hiscock

“Now I remembered a captain’s honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.” ―  Carsten Jensen,  We, the Drowned

“We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.” ―  Lew Wallace,  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Quotes On Departing Ports

“I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn’t acquire the knowledge.” ― Tom Holland

“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.,  P.S. I Love You

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― Christopher Columbus

“The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that is not the aim of boats.” ― Paulo Coelho

“The thing that most forget while dreamily looking off into the horizon for the ship of their dreams is that such ships never sail in but are built beneath their feet.” ―  Mike Dooley

“The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“The sea was not meant to be controlled. The sea was meant to be sailed.” ―  Jon Acuff

“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.” ― Carl Sandburg

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” ― Joseph Conrad

“How inappropriate it is to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Sea.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

“She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.” ―  George R.R. Martin,  A Storm of Swords

Which sailing quote is your favorite?

Beautiful quotes. A pleasure to read. Thank you using so many of my quotes. “The sea is what makes me feel so young.”

All the best. Anthony T. Hincks

You have a way with words!

Amy, devem existir incontáveis citações célebres envolvendo o mar e o nosso eterno caso de amor, que é velejar. Parabéns pelo seu bom gosto. Surpreendente. Já li algumas mas sua seleção é melhor de todas. Sinceros agradecimentos.

The sea is a good muse! 🙂

I collect sailing/travel quotes and many of these were new to me. What a great list.

And…you corrected my erroneously attributing a certain quote to Mark Twain 😉

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, Lord Byron

Thank you, Amy!

I looked up the Mark Twain thing before I posted, because I saw it attributed to both. Geat Bryon quote.

The quote: ‘Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.’ really resonated with me today 🙂

Thanks for all the work putting this lovely collection together.

Aw great to hear from you! 🙂

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Just thought I’d share with you my picks of some of the best sailing quotes that I have seen going around.

There are some pretty cool quotes from a mix of some world-class sailors right through to those with just a more basic love for the water.

If you have a favorite sailing quote, whether it be a famous one, something you made up, or one you heard down at the club, make sure that you share it in the comments section at the bottom of the page.

Enjoy…

Our Picks Of The Best Sailing Quotes…

“I’m not sure why I am so competitive, but I always have been. Whether it’s playing table tennis, cards or Olympic sailing I just have to win.” — Tom Slingsby – Laser World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist

“I’ve been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, ‘I know how to do this; you don’t have to come with me anymore.” — Nathan Outteridge – 420, 49er and Moth World Champion, and Olympic Gold Medalist

 “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” — Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows

“You haven’t won the race, if in winning the race you have lost the respect of your competitors.” — Paul Elvstrøm – Winner of 4 Olympic Gold medals

“You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you can be a great athlete, the strongest guy in the world, but if you can’t anticipate and make decisions under stress and exhaustion and think ahead, then you won’t be able to cut it, either.” — Jimmy Spithill – youngest ever winner of the America’s Cup

“The sea will grant each man new hope. The sleep brings dreams of home.” — Christopher Columbus

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” — William Arthur Ward – Author, educator, and motivational speaker

“A bad day sailing is better than a good day at work.” — unknown

“Start first and increase your lead.” — Buddy Melges – Olympic Gold & Bronze Medalist

“Big boats get the glory, but the dingy makes the sailor.” — From the movie “ Wind ”

“Life’s a reach until you gibe.” — Book by Sean Downey

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” — Bertha Calloway – Activist and historian

“It’s the next step for someone like me who has come from small boats to try to make it into the America’s Cup. It’s the pinnacle of big boat sailing really.” — Sir Ben Ainslie – Laser and Finn World Champion

“Sailing – The fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense while being cold, wet and miserable.” — Irv Heller

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd – Salt from My Attic, 1928

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust – French novelist

“I am really fighting for every spot, even if I am back in the pack tomorrow I’ll be fighting for every point come the end of the regatta.” — Tom Slingsby – Laser World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist

“I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that’s why I’m attracted to these kind of boats.” — Nathan Outteridge – 420, 49er and Moth World Champion, and Olympic Gold Medalist

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Roman philosopher

“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.” — George William Curtis – American writer and public speaker

“Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.” — Christopher Columbus

“In typical sailing races a long time ago, you’d come in and go out, and the first thing you’d do is probably have a cold beer. The first thing we do now is have a protein shake and our recovery drink.” — Jimmy Spithill – youngest ever winner of the America’s Cup

 “I’d love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.” — Jonathan Powell

“The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.” — William Falconer – Scottish poet

“The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.” — Ella Maillart – Swiss adventurer and sportswoman

“Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.” — George Matthew Adams – American newspaper columnist

“Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you’re going to get.” — Hannah Mills – 420 and 470 World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist

“Sailing is the closest I can get to nature – it’s adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.” — Daria Werbowy – Ukrainian-Canadian model

“Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I’ve had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It’s just the nature of this type of sailing.” — Nathan Outteridge – 420, 49er and Moth World Champion, and Olympic Gold Medalist

“There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.” — Jimmy Spithill – youngest ever winner of the America’s Cup

 “Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.” — David Crosby – American singer

“It is always hard when people say you are a dead cert to win; you try to tell them that is not the case, but they don’t listen. I started sailing in Cornwall as an 8-year-old in a duffle coat and wellies (British Wellington boots) and now I’m standing here. You never know what can happen.” — Sir Ben Ainslie – Laser and Finn World Champion

 “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Christopher Columbus

 “When I’m not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.” — Laura Dekker – Dutch sailor, completed World solo circumnavigation at age 16

“Sailing unties the knots in my mind.” — Al Noble

“Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.” — Dennis Conner – 4 times America’s Cup winner

“To win a medal here you have to be a complete sailor, you have to be able to sail in a wide range of conditions.” — Robert Scheidt – Laser World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist

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“Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.”  Sir Francis Chichester  

“Every single day since I heard that tap-tapping and knew I had survived, I have told myself I am lucky to be alive. Why go back? Because I’m a racing sailor; that’s what I do. I love the sea, and I love competition. You don’t give up on life just because you once had a narrow shave from death.”  Tony Bullimore

“My mother, when asked for her opinion of the voyage before I sailed, had replied that she considered it ‘totally irresponsible’ and on this Christmas Day I began to think she was right. I was sailing round the world simply because I bloody well wanted to – and, I realised, I was thoroughly enjoying myself.”  Robin Knox-Johnston

“The day passes happily with me wherever my ship sails.”  Joshua Slocum

“The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.”  Annie Van De Wiele

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“I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came. ”  John F. Kennedy

“There have been times on this trip I’ve been convinced that GPS was wrong.”   Chris Robb

“Calm sailing doesn’t come from calm waters, it comes from having a good navigator; a good crew and a good vessel.”  Anthony T. Hincks

“It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.”   Vito Dumas

“The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.”  L. Francis Herreshoff

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“The charm of singlehanded cruising is not solitude, but independence.”  Claud Worth

“When you are in a huge storm, and you’ve set the boat up for the winds, and the autopilot is steering the boat, there’s nothing to do apart from stand there and watch the walls of water breaking around you; it’s an awesome sight.”  Emma Richards

“In splicing, practice makes perfect, and in the doing you will learn more than from reading any ten books on the subject.”  Hervey Garrett Smith

“The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.”  Eric Hiscock

“To win, you have to believe you can do it. You have to be passionate about it. You have to really ‘want’ the result – even if this means years of work. The hardest part of any big project is to begin.”  Sir Peter Blake

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“When you spend so much time pushing, caring for, cajoling and maintaining a beautiful racing machine like this, you get very close. She’s looked after me well, and I look after her. I haven’t been lonely at all.”  Ellen MacArthur

“The chance of mistakes are about equal to the number of crew squared.”   Ted Turner

“The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.”  Arthur Ransome

“I want a boat that drinks six, eats four, and sleeps two.”  Ernest K. Gann

“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

Sailor Sayings and Sailing Quotes – Inspirational Quotes for Sailors

Are you a sailor and needs some more inspiration? Here’s my list of Quotes about the sea and sailing on a boat.

Two years ago, when Jonathan and I were still broke backpackers, he told me about how he dreams of sailing the open seas – that someday, he would buy himself a boat. Live in it. And travel around the world with it. And you guessed right; he sure did buy us a sailboat.

Here is the list of some popular sailor sayings and sailing quotes that will have you set before your sailing rendezvous:

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1. Sailors, with their built-in sense of order, service, and discipline, should really be running the world. – Nicholas Monsarrat

2. the wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator. – edmund gibbon, 3. the pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. – william arthur ward.

4. Mackerel skies and mares tails, soon will be time to shorten sails . – sailors proverb

5. the cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. – l. francis herreshoff.

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6. 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, Jr.

7. A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. – William Shedd

8. You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Christopher Columbus

9. He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. – Leonardo da Vinci

10. 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

11. I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. – John Masefield

12. That’s what a ship is, you know – it’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a ship needs. But what a ship is, really is, is freedom. – Capt. Jack Sparrow

13. A tourist remains an outsider throughout his visit, but a sailor is part of the local scene from the moment he arrives. – Anne Davison

14. The perfection of a yacht’s beauty is that nothing should be there for only beauty’s sake.  – John MacGregor

15. A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be. – Aubrey de Selincourt

16. Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid . – Robert N. Rose

17. He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. – Thomas Fuller

18. 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

19. We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. – Aristotle Onassis, Shipping Magnate

20. The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator. – Edmund Gibbon, Historian

21. I wanted freedom, open-air, and adventure. I found it on the sea. – Alaine Gerbault, Sailor

22. It is not the ship so much as the skilful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. – George William Curtis

23. A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!  – Mehmet Murat ildan

24. The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you’re sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them . – Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

25. That’s what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don’t tell her. You have to remember always that she’s the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune. – Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

26. The sea hates a coward. – Eugene O’Neill

27. I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else. – Joshua Slocum

28. If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends . – Enoch Powell

29. 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

30. There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. – Kenneth Grahame

31. I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else. – Joshua Slocum

32. 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

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Twice you have the same quote in here twice: 27 & 31 (Slocum) and 29 & 32 (Ashe).

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• Sailor's anthem: Nautical quotes and sayings that set sail

The sea has long been a muse for poets, writers, and dreamers. Whether it's the calm waters reflecting the sky's hues or the tumultuous waves crashing against the shore, the sea's moods and mysteries have inspired profound quotes. We dive into the treasure trove of literary gems that pay homage to the vastness and unpredictability of the ocean.

Quotes about the sea and sailing

Sailor's language and slang.

Onboard a ship, sailors have their own language—a unique blend of slang and terminology that fosters a sense of community and camaraderie. Dive into the fascinating world of sailor slang, from "landlubber" to "aye aye, captain!" Learn the meanings behind these colorful expressions and how they bring the crew together.

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Famous sailing quotes and sayings

Throughout history, sailing has captured the imagination of adventurers, philosophers, and writers. We delve into the words of luminaries such as Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Joshua Slocum, who beautifully captured the essence of sailing in their quotes. These quotes not only celebrate the thrill of exploration but also reflect on the profound experiences of life at sea.

Inspirational quotes for sailors

Sailing isn't just a journey across the water—it's a metaphor for life itself. Inspirational quotes for sailors remind us of the lessons learned from the sea: resilience, adaptability, and the courage to face the unknown. We gather uplifting quotes that inspire sailors to set their course with confidence and determination.

Humorous sailboat quotes and sayings

Sailing isn't all serious business—there's plenty of room for humor on the high seas. Humorous sailboat quotes and sayings inject laughter into maritime life. From witty observations about navigation mishaps to playful jabs at the unpredictability of the wind, we highlight the lighthearted side of sailing.

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Quotes of the sea: Capturing the essence of sailing

• "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
• "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward
• "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Yves Cousteau
• "To reach a port, we must sail—sail, not tie at anchor—sail, not drift." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
• "I can't control the wind, but I can adjust the sails." - Ricky Skaggs
• "The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen
• "The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish." - Jacques Yves Cousteau
• "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain
• "Every time I stand before a beautiful beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature's simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard." - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
• "He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea." - George Herbert
• "A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind." - Webb Chiles
• "The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul." - Wyland
• "Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself." - George Matthew Adams
• "The sea has never been friendly to man. At most, it has been the accomplice of human restlessness." - Joseph Conrad
• "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea." - Joseph Conrad

These quotes encapsulate the beauty, challenges, and allure of sailing and the sea.

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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

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.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

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.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

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Sailboat Quotes and Sayings

Sailboats have always been a great way to get away from it all and relax. Sailboats can be good for much more than just powerboats. They can be used as water sports and adventure vehicles, fishing platforms, and many more things.

Sailboats are delightful little floating pieces of art. Whether you sail your boat on the ocean or a large pond, chances are you’ll find yourself in awe of this toy and its myriad uses.

Sailing is great fun because it satisfies the kid in all of us who once dreamed of being the captain of a ship. You can feel the wind on your face, experience the thrill of speed, and bask in the sunshine. These sailboat quotes and sayings will help capture the exciting feeling and sensation that comes with sailing.

For me, life’s a sailboat. I’ve never been happier than when I’m out on the ocean, well, maybe when I’m reading quotes. There’s always room for a sailboat on any day. Because as the saying goes, you never know what kind of day you have until you go sailing

1. A sailboat is a perfect canvas for our dreams, aspirations, and emotions. It’s the ideal escape from reality.

2. Let’s sail together, and let the wind be our guide. A day spent sailing, I’m there. A week at sea, it becomes our home.

3. Sail away, and don’t forget to always remember that the ocean is the greatest teacher.

4. There’s only one thing better than the feeling of the wind in your hair and the sun on your face: That awesome feeling when you know you’re sailing, too.

5. With the wind in your hair and the ocean in your view, life is better on the water.

6. Sailing the world, or at least our little corner of it. That’s why I enjoy sailing.

7. Throw off the lines and the anchors of your ordinary life, and set sail on a journey you’ll never forget.

8. Sail on, and seize the wind. Good things come to those who sail. Wait for a great day on the water

9. With the wind in your sails and the confidence of a captain, anything is possible on this voyage.

10. Sail on, Sailboat – the waves are there for you to keep your boat moving forward.

11. Sail hard. Sail fast. Sail far. Keep sailing as that’s how best to enjoy life.

12. Sail away on the wind of life, as a young sailor. Life is but a journey, to be enjoyed.

13. Life’s a sail and living is sailing. Coast to coast and back again. Sailing is not just a beautiful way to travel, it’s an adventure all its own.

14. Not all boats are built the same. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find your own beautiful sea story to tell.

15. Let’s have a happy and enjoyable sail. But if I were you, I’ll be careful of the sea.

16. The sea is my constant companion, and the wind is my best friend. I am your captain and you are my crew. Together we will find our way across this ocean of life.

17. Sailing is a whole new way of life, but it’s also the most natural activity there is.

18. You can only see the shore when you’re out on the water.

19. Sailing is about slowing down and taking it easy, not about sea sickness.

20. The wind is your friend. The wave is your acquaintance. And the sea is NOT your enemy.

21. The wind blows away all fears, and the sea keeps us grounded.

22. Life is like a sailboat . You’ve got to keep it moving. Sometimes that’s easy, sometimes it’s the hard way. But you’ve got to keep it going.

23. Sailboats are the best way to escape. Friends sail together and lovers sail away.

24. There’s nothing more relaxing than sailing on a beautiful day.

25. Sail away and leave everything behind, you’re in the middle of a dream and it feels so good.

26. Sailing on the open sea, there’s no horizon. It’s an endless expanse of blue sky and water.

27. When you sail, there are no boundaries and no fear of losing yourself. You’re free in a way you’ve never known otherwise.

28. Sailing is a calm, relaxing sport that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Indeed, a life on the water is a life well spent.

29. Let’s take a break from the hustle and bustle of it all. Let’s escape to the open sea and enjoy the view, good times, and memories.

30. There are no rules. There is only doing what you enjoy and making it better and that applies to sailing.

31. Sailboats are so much fun. And such a great way to get from one place to another with a friend or loved one. Sailboards are even more fun!

32. You can’t help falling in love with something that relaxes your mind and that’s a sailboat

33. I love sailboats for the way they bounce and buzz in the water, just like old friends.

34. The joy of sailing is a feeling that you can’t explain. It’s a feeling that takes over your whole body, it’s addicting.

35. Sailboats are the perfect way to spend a sunny day. Even if you’re not into sailing, I guarantee you’ll feel like a kid again, just from smelling the salty wind.

36. Sailing is for people who love life and who want to share it with others.

37. Sailing is like a hug, you never know how enjoyable it will be until it happens.

38. Nothing beats the feeling of sailing with friends, family, and loved ones.

39. Sailing on a boat is the most enjoyable way to travel. It’s just you, the wind, and the sea.

40. There is nothing like sailing on a gorgeous day. Great fun and great memories. The wind in your hair, the ocean below, and a timeless moment with your friends and family.

41. Sailing is an activity that enriches the soul. It brings relaxation, joy, and peace of mind.

42. Sail a boat, you don’t have to watch the clock. Time flies when you’re having fun!

43. Sailing is the only thing that can beat a good book.

44. The best way to travel is by sailboat. The sea is always calling us back to our roots and it’s always a great place for new adventures!

45. Sail away and feel free. Sail away but find your way back home.

46. It’s always good to have a little time to yourself. Take a day off, go sailing, and explore the wonders of life.

47. The sea is a highway of dreams. The sky is the roof of life. Sail away and don’t look back.

48. Life is too short to worry about what people think. Take it easy on yourself, enjoy yourself and go sailing.

Sailing Boat Quotes

A sailing boat is like a really big bathtub: you’re suspended in the middle of this massive wave, with nothing to do but enjoy it. A Sailboat life is that of a great adventure. Sail with purpose, reach for the horizon and tell yourself every day will be better than the last. Life is a sailboat, you just have to grab the oars and row.

49. Everything about sailboats is fun . The joy of sailing together on a beautiful day, seeing the world from new perspectives, and sharing a special moment with that special someone.

50. A sailboat is the perfect way to spend a day on the water. It’s a vessel that invites adventure and discovery.

51. When you’re on a sailboat, you don’t have to be all work and no play.

52. When you’re out on a sailboat and you feel the wind in your hair, that is when you realize how fortunate you are to be alive.

53. Sail your boat and enjoy the breeze. Sailboats are like really great coffee. They hit your system fast, and leave you feeling good for hours.

54. Sailing is the most enjoyable activity there is.

55. Sailing has the power to transport you to a time and place that is closer to the heart than it is to your head.

56. Life is like sailing. There’s always wind and a way for you to keep going.

57. Enjoy the moment, because life is too short to take anything seriously.

58. A sailboat is like a silent movie. It moves across the water, lifting you and letting you drift back down. It’s an island of stillness in an ocean of noise.

59. Life is full of sailing moments. Let’s go and enjoy it!

60. The beauty of sailing is that you can take your time and enjoy the journey.

61. Feel free to stop by the marina whenever you want, because nothing short of a sailboat adventure is complete without an ice cream cone.

62. The winds may blow, and the waves may rise, but with a smile on your face, you’re always safe.

63. Sailing is a simple, fulfilling, and wonderfully easy way to spend time with yourself.

64. When you’re sailing, the wind doesn’t care if you come from a landlocked state or not.

65. Sailing may be an escape, but it’s also a way of life. And as long as there are storms at sea, I’ll always be at peace.

66. Sail away, don’t let the anchor weigh you down.

67. When it comes to the sea, there’s a rhythm to sailing. You have to keep the beat.

68. The ocean is a place where dreams are born, even if they’re just in our heads.

69. A sailboat gives the ultimate open-water adventure. It’s the freedom to go where you want when you want. The only limit is your imagination.

70. Life is like a sailboat. Learn to love the sea and you will love life.

71. When you are sailing, every day is a new adventure. Let’s sail, where there’s no telling what tomorrow will bring.

72. The wind in your hair. The sound of the waves. A boat ride with your favourite people. They’re all things that make life worth living.

73. Sailing is a state of mind – but it’s also the heart and the soul.

74. Nautical life isn’t always easy. But the good times and bad away from the shore are always worth it.

75. The wind is blowing, and the captain’s standing at the wheel. There’s nothing to do but brace for it—and enjoy every minute.

76. That feeling you get when you’re on the water and are totally in your element. This is life.

77. Sometimes you just have to relax and let the wind take you where it wants. A sailboat is not only a boat, it’s a way of life.

78. A sailboat knows what it wants. It doesn’t need a map or an instrument, just a breeze and the open sea.

79. To live is to enjoy the sunshine, and to enjoy the sunshine you need a sailboat.

80. Sail around the world with your friends, family, or even strangers. It’s a good time to be alive!

Sailing Ship Quotes

The sea is calm, the winds are light, and the sky is blue. There is no better place to be than on a sailing ship. The best thing about sailing is that when the wind drops, you’re still on course and all of a sudden you see land. Sail away with us, we’ve got the perfect sailship that you will love.

81. Some people go out on the water looking for adventure. Others find it, and some others make it come to them

82. Sailing ships are the best way to travel, especially when they’re in a beautiful place.

83. Sailing has so much to offer: wind, waves, sea, and sky. How enjoyable it is!

84. Sailing through life is like sailing on a ship: you never know what’s going to happen next.

85. A friendly sail aboard a sailing ship—there’s nothing better. A day on the water, looking at the horizon, appreciating the breeze in your hair.

86. Sail away with us on a voyage to the sea. Sailing is like a vacation in your boat, one of the best!

87. The joy of sailing is all in the journey, not in reaching your destination.

88. The perfect time to sail, is always when you’re in one.

89. In sailing, it’s not just the ship that moves, but also the wind.

90. It’s fun to be on a sailboat. And even more, fun when you’re cruising among the islands, visiting each one with your loved ones.

91. The best way to describe a sailboat is: a boat that’s moving forward, but not too fast.

92. Sailing into the sunset on an ocean breeze. Sail away with a good book, and a cup of coffee.

93. The sea has no end. When you’re sailing, you can’t control the wind, but you can adjust your sails and let it blow you where you want to go.

94. Sailing is the joint relaxation of mind and body. Let the wind and sea take you where you want to go.

95. Sailing on a wave of laughter, a wind of meditation, the sun on your face, the ocean in your heart, and the sky above you.

96. There’s nothing more relaxing than sailing with friends .

97. To sail is to be free, to sail alone is to be free from all the conflicts that threaten us at home.

98. Just when you’re looking for something to do on a rainy day, the clouds part, and there it is—a sunny sailboat sailing on the horizon!

99. Sail away to a new day. Sail on, my friend. Sail along to your greatest adventures, never giving up on your dreams.

100. It’s a beautiful day to be on a sailing ship, with the waves lapping against the deck, and a soft breeze blowing through your hair. What more could you ask for?

I hope you enjoyed this compilation of sailboat quotes and sayings. Since the boat is a means of enjoyment and entertainment, if you are a sailing enthusiast, then it is mandatory to have one of these sailboat quotes and sayings as your reminder.

Please share this post with your loved ones, too.

Best Sailing Quotes, Inspirational and Motivational

Sailing is full of quotes to help you stay motivated, and that’s a good thing because there will be times when you’re feeling discouraged.

Whether you’re new to sailing or a seasoned veteran of the sea, the following sailing quotes will hopefully give you some inspiration the next time you’re out on your boat.

Quotes for Sailing

“There are many old sailors and there are many brave sailors. But there are few old brave sailors.” – Unknown

“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” – Robin Lee Graham, American Sailor

“Hoist the sails of choice to harness the winds of joy.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A bad day sailing is 100 times better than a good day at work.” – Unknown

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” – Fitzhugh Dodson

Sailing Quotes about Life

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain , American Writer

“The sea finds out everything you did wrong.” – Francis Stokes

“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.” – Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Philosopher “The sea finds out everything you did wrong.” ― Francis Stokes

Inspiring Sailing Quotes

“The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.” – John Rousmaniere, American Author

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be Pirates” – Mark Twain

“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” – Brooks Atkinson

“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.” – Alaine Gerbault

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” – Aristotle Onassis

“Less judgement than wit is more sail than ballast.” – Unknown

“Don’t make any waves! The world is a big ocean, and you’re floating in the smallest canoe.” – Unknown

Funny Sailing Quotes

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” ― Willa Cather

“ You there, are you a sailor?” – “Ja’ think I’m a cowboy?” ― Popeye

“The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.”  ― Annie Van De Wiele

Life is simple if you just eat, sleep, and sail.” ― Unknown

“A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s.” ― Bernard Moitessier

Quotes on Sailing Away

“ Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” — Van Morrison, Irish Singer-Songwriter

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.” — E.E. Cummings, American Poet & Author

“Dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” – Christy Ann Martine, Canadian Poet

“The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.” – John Rousmaniere

Emotional Sailing Quotes

“Home is where the anchor drops.” — Unknown

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” – Helen Keller

“A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned.” – Old fisherman from the Blasket Islands

Sailing Quotes about Love

“Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love.” – Jimi Hendrix

“Venture too far for love … and you renounce citizenship in the country you’ve made for yourself. You end up just sailing from port to port.” – Michael Cunningham

“Sailing is a big outlet for me. It’s one of the key things I’ve been able to do by commingling science with sailing and my love of the sea. Also, I have several motorcycles, and I like to go on motorcycle trips.” – Craig Venter

Motivational Sailing Quotes

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca, Roman Philosopher

“Work like a captain and play like a pirate.” – Unknown

“The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.” – Edmund Gibbon

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” – African quote

Good Sailing Quotes

A man is never lost at sea.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“The sea is a desert of waves, a wilderness of water.” – Langston Hughes, American Poet

“The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.” -Edmund Gibbon

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21 Sailing Quotes to Help You Seas the Day

It’s time to hoist the mainsail and head for the open sea (or lake)! ⛵️

As the weather gets warmer and the days start to feel like Summer, we start itching to get out on the water. We love all kinds of water activities, but feeling the wind in our hair from a sailboat has to be one of our favorites. 

Fun fact: We own a 1978 Catalina 22 , aptly named “For Sail”

Even if you’re not a sailor, you probably know that sailing comes with its own terminology . You’ve likely heard some of the more common sailing phrases, but here are a few directional terms to use so that you can sound like a seasoned pro.

• Aft or stern : the back of the sailboat
• Bow : the front of the sailboat
• Port : the left hand side of the sailboat when you’re facing the bow. 
• Starboard : the right hand side of the sailboat when you’re facing the bow.

When you’re sailing on open waters, using the terms “left” and “right” can become confusing, so port and starboard are always defined in relation to the bow. Makes sense, right?

We love that sailing always feels like a new adventure. Every time we’re in a boat, the water is different, there is somewhere new to explore, and there is always more to learn . As we sail out onto the open water, we feel like we’re headed into the unknown. 

If you also love adventure, exploration, and being on the open water as much as we do, here are some sailing quotes that are perfect for your letter board!

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• The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.
• Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
• It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
• A smooth sea never made for a skilled sailor.
• Come sail away with me.
• “A man is never lost at sea.” - Ernest Hemingway
• Sail boats will get you schooner or later.
• Freedom, open air, and adventure are found on the sea.
• Seas the day!
• “I cannot not sail.” - E.B. White
• Land was created so boats would have a place to visit.
• Sailboat: a whole in the surface of the water into which money is thrown.
• No landlubbers allowed.
• A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind.
• Home is where the anchor drops.
• Sorry for what I said when I was docking the boat.
• Sometimes I wonder if my sailboat is thinking about me too.
• Things I do in my spare time: go sailing, look at sailboats, think about sailboats, talk about sailboats, dream about sailboats.
• Wild and free just like the sea
• “We can’t direct the wind but we can adjust the sails” - Thomas S. Monson

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52 Best Boat Quotes And Sayings About Life On The Ocean

A boat is a watercraft of varying dimensions used to navigate the seas and oceans.

Boats can be divided into three main categories; an unpowered or human-powered boat, such as a scull, which is made for a single person, a sailboat, or a motorboat. If you or your friends owns a boat, here are some great boat words to name your boat- Carpe Diem, Serendipity, Relentless, Aquaholic, and Liberty.

Boats have been used as a method of transport dating back to prehistoric times as proved by findings in Flores, which are dated to 900,000 years ago! Until the mid-19th-century, boats were made of natural materials, primarily wood.

By the 1930s, wooden boats were being used for industrial needs. And around the mid-1960s, fiberglass became the popular choice for recreational boats and cruise ships, as they don't rust or corrode easily.

The oceans and boats were meant for each other as time keeps proving again and again! "A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into" is a famous saying about people who own boats.

Sailing ever since its inception has been linked to things like the drive for adventures. For many centuries, sailors were considered bold and courageous men who were willing to risk their lives for their honor. As years passed, great men and women who fell in love with sailing gave us an endless series of adventurous and inspirational quotes.

For more related content, take a look at ocean quotes and vacation quotes .  

Quotes About Boats

Here are some great boating quotes and boat sayings as well as boat captions for Instagram for future sailors our there!

1. "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out and meet it."

― Jonathan Winters.

2. "The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats."

― Ernest Hemingway .

3. "This boat that we just built is just fine -

And don't try to tell us it's not

The sides and the back are divine -

It's the bottom I guess we forgot."

― Shel Silverstein.

4. "I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that."

― Lin Pardey.

5. "There is no better tool or equipment you can have onboard than a well-trained crew."

― Larry Pardey.

6. "Sometimes you need to tether your boats to stop them from following your dreams."

— Anthony T. Hincks.

7. "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

― Kenneth Grahame.

8. "The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats."

― Ernest Hemingway.

9. "Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!"

― Mehmet Murat Ildan.

10. "The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself."

— John Rousmaniere.

11. "Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit."

― Brooks Atkinson.

12. "If the water is calm, the boat is also calm! If your thoughts are calm, your life is also calm!"

— Mehmet Murat Ildan.

13. "The boat is safer anchored at the port, but that is not the aim of boats."

― Paulo Coelho.

14. "If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves!"

15. "A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into."

Quotes About Sailing

Sailing is said to be like poetry in motion but on the water! Find some great sailing quotes right here.

16. "In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth."

― Rachel Carson.

17. "The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them."

― Richelle E. Goodrich.

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

― George William Curtis.

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

― Ella Maillart.

20. "When I'm out sailing, I don't wonder what heaven is like because I know."

― Anthony T. Hincks.

21. "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines...sail away from safe harbor...catch the trade winds in your sails...explore...dream....discover."

― Mark Twain.

22. "To reach a port we must set sail –

Sail, not tie at anchor

Sail, not drift."

― Franklin D. Roosevelt.

23. "The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use."

― Dom Degnon.

24. "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

― William Arthur Ward.

25. "Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination."

― Fitzhugh Dodson.

26. "To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives."

― Carleton Mitchell.

27. "Ship is the nearest thing to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid."

— Robert N. Rose.

28. "On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty."

29. "Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward."

30. "It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living."

— Ernest K. Gann.

Quotes About The Ocean

Best quotes about exploring the massive vast bodies of water that are perfect for boats and ships!

31. "The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator."

― Edmund Gibbon.

32. "We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the port!"

33. "The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know."

― Graham Hawkes.

34. "Without the will or desire to achieve one is like flotsam on the oceans of time."

― Steven Redhead.

35. "If you want to hear the distant voice of the ocean put your ear to the lips of a seashell."

― Curtis Tyrone Jones.

36. "You will love the ocean. It makes you feel small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you're part of something bigger."

― Lauren Myracle.

37. "In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of you are found all the aspects of existence."

― Kahlil Gibran Jr.

38. "A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life."

― Linda Gerber.

39. "Whenever I find myself growing grim […] I quietly take to the ship. Almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me."

― Herman Melville .

Quotes About The Sea

Great quotes about the sea that will hopefully make you want to go out in the sunshine and experience the sea!

40. "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea."

― Joseph Conrad.

41. "For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may be a very strong one."

42. "It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."

― Francis Drake.

43. "The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths, it has its pearls too."

― Vincent Van Gogh.

44. "It's out there at sea that you are really yourself."

― Vito Dumas.

45. "Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems."

― Francis Stokes.

46. "At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much."

― Robin Lee Graham.

47. "There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him."

― Errol Flynn.

48. "I wanted freedom, open-air, adventure. I found it on the sea."

― Alain Gerbault.

49. "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

50. "If you're really ready to sail, then the sea, the wind and the ship will be ready too! You must be ready first for the universe to help you!"

51. "The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

― Carl Sandburg.

52. "He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea."

― Thomas Fuller.

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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Boat Quotes and Sayings “Let your dreams set sail.”                                                                                                                                Boat Quotes (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); “Do not put each foot in a different boat.”                                                                                                          Famous Boat Sayings “I don’t need therapy, I just need my boat.”                                                                                                              Quotes About Boating “I’m sorry for what I said while docking the boat.” “Remember when you were my boat, and I was your sea?” “Shells sink, dreams float, life’s good on our boat.” – Jimmy Buffet “Our life is like a boat than can float. Row and Go! Some Blink and Sink!!” “A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.” – Bill Cosby                                                      Boat Quotes Images “We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.” – Christie Watson                                                                Boat Quotes About Life “Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” – Van Morrison “For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.” – Alanis Morissette “A boat without captain cannot remain long on the surface!” – Mehmet Murat ildan “Peace is not found in a calmer storm, It’s found in a better boat.” – Travis Meadows “Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!” – Mehmet Murat ildan “The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.” – Paulo Coelho “You can’t buy happiness. But you can buy a boat and that’s pretty much the same thing.”                                                                                                                                                                                                              Cute Boat Lovers Quotes “Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.” – Rumi “Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.” – Kenichi Ohmae “If there “is no more after one more”. Then you are on a boat with no oar, offshore.” – Zulqar “I’ve always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.” – Will Ferrell “The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.” – Ernest Hemingway “When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!” – Mehmet Murat ildan “Never mind who owns the boat. Pull for the shore.” – Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “When you get on the boat that’s saving you, don’t pull up the ladder behind you.” – Adrienne Clarkson “We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.” – Anna Freud                                                                                                                                          Boat Quotes Pictures “We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.” – G. K. Chesterton “Sometimes you need to tether your boats to stop them from following your dreams.” – Anthony T. Hincks “Life is like a boat in the sea. When the sea is rough the only way to keep your boat moving forward is to keep rowing.” “I may have fewer people on my boat. But at least they row rather than making holes when I’m not watching.” – Sahil “As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.” – Laura Dekker “Life without a defined purpose is similar to a boat without a crew in the middle of the ocean.” – Debasish Mridha “A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In truth it pictures not my destination but my life.” – Edgar Lee Masters “When a boat comes upon a winding river, slow down and the river becomes straight.” – Nelson Mandela “There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.” – P. J. O’Rourke “The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.” – Yoko Ono “Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.” – Goran Ivanisevic “If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves!” – Mehmet Murat ildan “Reaction a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.” – Victor Hugo “If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.” – Sebastian Vettel “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” – Kenneth Grahame “If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.” – E.B. White “Let God push your boat out into the deep waters, toward the unfathomable depths of the interior life.” – Diary of Saint Faustina “He’s not the type of guy who’s just going to fall off a boat, he’s the type of guy who watches to make sure no one else does.” – Keith Davis “Boats don’t sink because of the water on the outside, boats sink if water gets inside. Don’t let negative get inside of you, and sink your goals.” “The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore.” – Dale Carnegie “I’ve bought a new kick-ass boat: one that not only withstands the rising sea swells, but holds all of the people that I love and need on this journey.” “Just like a paper boat floating in water can be destroyed at any moment, similarly, this human body can be destroyed at any moment.” – Diptanu “A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.” – Francois Truffaut “Being on a boat that’s moving through the water, it’s so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what’s important and what’s not.” – James Taylor “A boat is the hardest thing I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.” – Barry S Strauss “I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.” – Hedy Lamarr “Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you’re on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.” – Jeff Bridges “If you boat a lot, you’re known as a boating enthusiast. I like to boat, but I just don’t want to ever be referred to as a boating enthusiast.” – Mitch Hedberg “This boat that we just built is just fine and don’t try to tell us it’s not the sides and the back are divine it’s the bottom I guess we forgot.” – Shel Silverstein “God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.” – Henry Ward Beecher “The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.” – Barbara Corcoran “A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.” – Ramakrishna “The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau “Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, whatever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.” – Jentezen Franklin “I feel bad for a boat that doesn’t go out. Its purpose in life is it should be out, and somebody should be on it, and somebody should enjoy it.” – Adrian Gradinaru “There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.” – Mark Twain “Running a boat isn’t that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me.” – Diane Wilson “When a big ship and a small boat come together, you will see that the latter is happier than the former because it has much less problems!” – Mehmet Murat ildan “Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself.” – George Matthew Adams “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett “For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat or never seen an office.” – Robert Louis Stevenson “There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!” – Kabir “If you boat a lot, you’re known as a boating enthusiast. I like to boat, but I just don’t want to ever be referred to as a boating enthusiast. I hope they call me a guy who likes to boat.” – Mitch Hedberg “A boat at midnight sent alone to drift upon the moonless sea, a lute, whose leading chord is gone, a wounded bird, that hath but one imperfect wing to soar upon, are like what I am, without thee.” – Thomas Moore “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 harbour. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain Funny Boat Quotes “Boats, like whiskey, are all good.”                                                                                                                          Boat Quotes Funny “A boat can’t have two captains.” – Akira Mori “Can anyone row this boat across this river, without an oar?” “The sea’s rising, the boat must be lightened.” – Alfred Noyes “Don’t bring an anchor, on a sinking boat.” – Anthony Liccione “Knees, but they evaporated as the boat picked.” – Lisa Scottoline “The love boat has crashed against the everyday.” – Vladimir Mayakovsky “Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.” – Felicity Kendal “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” – Jean-Paul Sartre “Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.” – Zig Ziglar “Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.” – Werner Herzog “The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.” – Guy Lafleur “Well, I still don’t like him! What kind of a man doesn’t name his boat?” – Amber Silvia “Make sure everybody in your boat is rowing and not drilling holes when you’re not looking.” “The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.” – John Rousmaniere “Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.” – Benjamin Franklin “Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!” – Mehmet Murat ildan “Don’t be afraid to rock the boat once in a while. If someone falls out, then obviously they were never meant to be in your boat in the first place.” “There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.” – Nathanael Greene Herreshoff              

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Spy X Family Is Not a Comedy (According to the Author), and That's Why I Love It

Spy x family season 3 story, latest news, & everything we know so far, one spy x family character could rival yor's strength with proper training.

• Loid is a wise, nuanced character, excelling not only as a spy but also as a caring father and husband.
• Loid values self-awareness and thoughtful decision-making, never wanting to be ignorant.
• Loid's dedication to his role as a father and protector stems from a desire to create a safe world for children, making him a respectable hero.

Loid Forger is not just Spy x Family 's main hero, he is one of the wisest and most nuanced characters in the show. Living under the nickname, Loid Forger, his true identity is Twilight, a world-renowned spy. His current mission, Operation Strix, is his most difficult yet, requiring him to form a fake family in order to fly under the radar as an average dad.

Loid is not just a strong fighter and clever spy, he is also a caring husband , and great at dealing with children, which he discovered when he adopted Anya for his mission. Although his father and husband roles are fake, he plays them well and with sincerity.

Loid is wise, disciplined, and guided by strong morals that aid him in always doing the right thing.

10 "Friends Are Important. Cherish Them."

Loid urges anya to remember the importance of strong friendships.

When Anya got into a fight with Damian at school, Loid was careful to remind her to consider her priorities. Although he does not want his daughter to be mistreated, it is crucial that she gets along with Damian. Gaining access to Damian's father is an integral goal of Operation Strix.

Loid urged Anya to remember the value of friendship and how important these bonds are. The opportunity to make friends is one of the best parts of the school experience. Loid's advice was helpful to Anya because she became friends with her classmates like Becky and even patched things up with Damian .

9 "The Mistake Was Endangering That Child in the First Place. How Did I Not See That? Making a World Where Kids Don’t Need To Cry... That Was the Whole Reason... I Became a Spy in the First Place."

Loid reveals the unshakable personal value that led him to choose his spy profession.

In this telling quote, Loid reminds viewers why he chose his spy profession . His desire to protect children from harm is admirable, and it is this value that led him to his chosen career. Loid hopes that one day the world will be a loving place for children to feel secure.

This is also why Loid is developing such an attachment to Anya, even though he insists she is just a pawn in his mission. Despite his protests, he appears to genuinely care for her as his own daughter and will stop at nothing to protect her from being hurt. His passion for keeping children safe is yet another reason he is anime's best father.

8 "You Gotta Be Careful. Because There’s Someone Else Back Home Who’d Be Heartbroken if Anything Happened to You."

Loid warns bond, the family pet, to take care of himself, lest he risk disappointing anya.

These touching and insightful words are spoken to Bond Forger, the family pet. Loid warns Bond that he needs to exercise caution because Anya would be devastated if any harm ever came to him. Although this message was spoken specifically to Bond, it could apply to any member of the Forger family.

Although the family was created intentionally for the purposes of a spy mission, it has grown into something greater. Whether they admit it or not, they all care for one another. If any one of the Forgers left the family or was harmed, it would negatively impact the other family members, proving that Loid's words to Bond ring true on a larger scale .

7 "Ignorance Isn’t Bliss. Ignorance Is Weakness. Ignorance Is a Sin."

Loid values self-awareness and careful consideration of decisions before making any choice.

Spy x Family is often considered to be a lighthearted slice-of-life series. It does have those elements indeed, but there is a more serious story at its core. The overarching plot follows a war between two nations and Loid's efforts to protect world peace.

This quote stems from Loid's experiences dealing with war. He explains how crucial it is to know what you are fighting for and not blindly follow a cause without understanding every detail. Loid is an intentional person who thinks through his decisions methodically, so it makes sense that he would never want to be ignorant in any aspect of his life.

In an interview, Tatsuya Endo, creator of Spy X Family, explained that his action shonen series, although hilarious, is not actually a comedy.

6 "Hopes of Marriage? The Joys of an Ordinary Life? Those Joined My I.D. Papers in the Rubbish Bin on the Day I Became a Spy."

Loid gave up dreams of family, but found himself leading the life he never thought he’d have.

The life of a spy is not an easy one and no one understands that more than Loid Forger. Loid has spent years without a family, a partner, or a steady and predictable job. He made all of these monumental sacrifices because living a normal life is impossible for those with careers like his.

Ironically, although Loid claims to have made his peace with never having "an ordinary life," he seems to deeply enjoy his time as a father and husband in the Forger family. From helping Anya study to going on dates with Yor, Loid stumbled into an average and delightful life. He is living in a way he never dreamed he would be able to when he entered his job.

5 "If Belittling the Feelings of Children Is a Part of Eden Academy’s Educational Philosophy... Then I Have Chosen the Wrong School."

Loid stands up to professor swan’s cruelty and boldly protects anya’s feelings.

In one of Loid's most noble moments yet, he stood up to Professor Swan during Anya's Eden Academy entrance exam. Professor Swan began grilling Anya with uncomfortable questions about her childhood and birth parents, causing her to burst into tears. Upon seeing Swan's provocation of Anya, Loid became enraged and punched the man.

Even though it could have completely jeopardized Operation Strix, Loid was unwilling to let a child suffer for the sake of his mission. The fact that he was willing to fail at his mission to keep Anya happy proves that he cares for her. Loid is not willing to sacrifice his morals for any reason, and that makes him a respectable hero .

4 "Of Course, I Believe That Working Hard To Be Your Best Self Is Admirable."

Loid’s focus on personal growth is admirable, giving him a satisfying character arc.

Self-improvement is always at the forefront of Loid's mind. He is the most hardworking character in Spy x Family . Loid is willing to sacrifice anything in order to contribute to the success of his missions .

This quote is one of Loid's wisest remarks, expressing the importance of always working diligently to be a better version of oneself. He is dedicated to improving, not just as a spy, but as a human being. This makes his character arc satisfying to watch because he is always growing and changing positively.

3 "Very Little of What My Daughter Says and Does Makes Any Sense to Me. But by Acknowledging Her, Even When I Don’t Understand, I Can at Least Create an Opportunity for Dialogue."

Loid is a careful listener to anya, even when her behavior or remarks confuse him.

Loid and Anya sometimes butt heads. Whether it's over Anya refusing to do homework or Loid misunderstanding a comment she makes, they do not always see eye to eye. In this line, Loid explains that he tries his best to relate to Anya even if he does not fully understand her.

By meeting Anya on her level, Loid has built trust and established himself as a father figure she can depend on. Although they do have their disagreements, as most parents and children do, they try their best to find common ground, even when it's difficult. Loid's dedication to getting to know Anya deeply only helps their bond grow.

2 "Completing Such Mundane Missions That Require Patience Makes a True Spy."

Loid acknowledges the importance of composure when completing spy missions.

The saying "patience is a virtue" rings true for Loid Forger. His spy profession requires patience and careful behavior. One small mistake could ruin a mission, so he is constantly walking on eggshells.

Being a spy may seem to be an action-packed career, and oftentimes it is. However, Loid acknowledges the fact that not every mission is larger-than-life, some of them are boring. It is his willingness to work just as hard at the lackluster missions as he does at the exciting ones that makes him a great spy.

Spy x Family returns with thrilling new episodes, blending espionage and family drama, promising fans even more action and heartfelt moments.

1 "Striving To Live Up to One’s Ideals Is an Admirable Thing, of Course, but When Those Ideals Start to Constrict You, It’s Easy To Lose Sight of Who You Are and Where Your True Strengths Lie."

Loid always works to live up to his true potential.

Loid often finds himself at a crossroads. He wants to be the best spy he can be, but still make honorable decisions. He explains that he never wants to become so dedicated to an ideal version of himself that it keeps him from living up to his potential.

Loid often finds himself pulled in different directions. It is crucial for him to have a clear understanding of who he is and what he values, and he seems to. In this quote, he elaborates on this point, hammering home how important it is to him to reevaluate the path he is on and make sure it aligns with his values and virtues.

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Created by Tatsuya Endo, Spy X Family is an action-adventure comedy anime that follows the misadventures of a found family with unique quirks. The story follows spy Twilight (known as Loid Forger), who, while on assignment, builds a fake family to get closer to his target. Unbeknownst to him, his new family carries their quirks. His wife, Yor, is a kind but deadly assassin, while his daughter, Anya, has telepathic powers - and is the only one who knows their secrets.

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Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough Spend Time Together Out on Boat in New Photos: ‘Cruising’

Morning Joe ’s Mika Brzezinski and her husband, Joe Scarborough , spent some time together on the water ahead of the weekend.

“Cruising thru the week #usa #freedom #we❤️america,” Mika, 57, captioned a post on her Instagram page on Thursday, August 22.

In the first photo, she and Joe, 61, posed for a selfie. The talk show cohosts wore hooded sweatshirts for the outing on the water. Mika had a pair of sunglasses perched on top of her head for the boat day, while Joe wore a baseball cap.

In a second picture shared in the post, Mika and Joe sailed together on a boat. He took the reigns navigating while she stood alongside him in a yellow raincoat and blue rain boots.

“I don’t like when you go on vaca! Selfish me. I enjoy your perspectives every morning!” one person playfully commented, while another wrote, “Love the pics!! Looks like you are having a great time!!!!”

Mika and Joe love spending time by the water, as she inherited her Maine vacation home in Northeast Harbor from her parents.

“We started coming up when we [children] were very young, and the house became a North Star for my entire family,” her brother Mark Brzezinski told the Mount Desert Islander during an interview in December 2020. “When summer would roll around, we would think of Northeast Harbor and getting out to the islands and doing all the hikes and going on the carriage paths.”

And while the pair appeared to be united in their recent photos, sources told Closer that tensions are running high on Morning Joe between Joe and Mika.

“Spending every waking moment together is just too much,” the insider said on August 9. “Their on-air bickering has escalated into full-blown fighting , and the cracks in their relationship are becoming more apparent.”

In the past, Joe admitted that the pair had their fair share of disagreements but always were able to move on from them.

“For me, the mistake always was I’m very driven at work, but I go home and I don’t want to fight. I’m passive aggressive. I’m sort of like, ‘Whatever you want to do,’” the former politician said during a SiriusXM appearance in August 2017. “That’s really what I think hurt me in one relationship after another. And differences grow over a decade and things ultimately blow up. With Mika and me, we both learn you have to. If there’s a problem, put it on the table immediately. If it gets ugly, it gets ugly. You go there and you fight through it.”

He went on to explain that their duties as cohost of Morning Joe have pushed them to settle disagreements before they go on air each morning. The two wed in a private ceremony at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., in November 2018.

“I’ll tell you, the blessing for us is, we always knew we had to take care of things by 6 a.m. the next morning,” he shared. “So we couldn’t go to sleep mad at each other, because Mika has the worst poker face in the history of television. She wears everything on her sleeve. I know if she goes on the air angry with me that everybody’s going to know.”

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