Wind Adjust Sails Quote Quotes

You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination ~ Paulo Coelho

We cannot change the wind, we can only adjust our sails. ~ Del Suggs

You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails. ~ Elizabeth Edwards

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. ~ Jim Rohn

When you can't change the direction of the wind - adjust your sails ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude. ~ Thomas S. Monson

Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim. ~ Barbara Ascher

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? ... We make our own destiny. ~ Swami Vivekananda

you can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails. It was his way of reminding us that you can't control most of what happens in life. You can only control your reaction to it. ~ Kristen Proby

When life's great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails. ~ Fay Weldon

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. ~ Robert Breault

If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. ~ Francine Rivers

Words are wind, and the only good wind is that which fills our sails. ~ George R R Martin

You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails. ~ John Assaraf

Many talk about flowing against the wind, but its only fools, who goes against the wind. The wise one's, simply adjust themselves with the flow of the wind. ~ Roshan Sharma

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul. ~ Samuel Rutherford

The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? Is it the fault of the merciful Father, whose wind of mercy is blowing without ceasing, day and night, whose mercy knows no decay, is it His fault that some of us are happy and some unhappy? We make our own destiny. His sun shines for the weak as well as for the strong. His wind blows for saint and sinner alike. He is the Lord of all, the Father of all, merciful, and impartial. ~ Swami Vivekananda

You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails. ~ Tony Robbins

The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life. ~ Jim Rohn

The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by. ~ Thomas Berry

Don't go getting full of yourself becuase once you do, somebody's going to come and let the wind out of your sails ~ Sharon G. Flake

Behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge ~ William Shakespeare

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. ~ Seneca.

A ship, like a human being, moves best when it is slightly athwart the wind, when it has to keep its sails tight and attend its course. Ships, like men, do poorly when the wind is directly behind, pushing them sloppily on their way so that no care is required in steering or in the management of sails; the wind seems favorable, for it blows in the direction one is heading, but actually it is destructive because it induces a relaxation in tension and skill. What is needed is a wind slightly opposed to the ship, for then tension can be maintained, and juices can flow and ideas can germinate, for ships, like men, respond to challenge. ~ James A. Michener

We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again ~ G. Campbell Morgan

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey

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

Stepping Out into the Wind
Allowing it to catch my Sails ~ Caleb Jorge

You are going to take the high sea of the world; change not, on that account, patron or sails, anchor or wind. Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.
May the favorable wind of celestial inspirations ever fill your vessel's sails fuller and fuller and make you happily arrive at the port of a holy eternity. ~ Francis De Sales

A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective. ~ Laurie Nadel

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea. ~ Ludwig Borne

In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised. ~ Yukio Mishima

I am choking in the suffocating foul air of the harbor. I want to hoist my sails in the open sea, even though a tempest may be blowing. Furled sails are always dirty. Those who would deride me are so many furled sails. They can do nothing. ~ Osamu Dazai

There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?" ~ Dave Barry

She embodied laughter and optimism and steadfast determination. Being with her felt like wind in his sails. ~ Elizabeth Camden

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. ~ Virginia Woolf

The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise your sails. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

How fast does time travel, how short are the trails, when friends and good companions put wind in one's sails! ~ Heimdall Thunderhammer

Yoga is the best way to learn to adapt and adjust to the changing environments. ~ Amit Ray

When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little. ~ Trevor Rabin

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

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

I drew, doing my best to adjust for elevation and wind. Archery ranges don't offer 'shooting from Dragon-back' practice. Vikan ~ Bryan Fields

The wind whipped up and I listened for ship sails snapping in the harbor cross the road, a place I'd smelled on the breeze, but never seen. The sails would go off like whips cracking and all us would listen to see was it some slave getting flogged in a neighbor-yard or was it ships making ready to leave. You found out when the screams started up or not. ~ Sue Monk Kidd

It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails. ~ Wes Walz

The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love your characters into existence. ~ Patricia Lee Gauch

After I speak, my words merge with the wind, and if you're listening, your ears act like sails and carry the conversation. ~ Jarod Kintz

We can simply adjust our posture to consider a wider, more inclusive community. If we adjust our posture, it will change the way we speak. If we adjust our posture, it will change the way we listen. If we adjust our posture, we will see the person, not the category they fall into. ~ Rachel Hollis

Swirling around my ears, the wind and I whooping at the sea, picking up speed, breathing it all in. An act of loving life. ~ Laurie Nadel

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

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will. ~ Susanna Kearsley

...when the morning wind caught up with us, and with it some quite unexpected fog - soft and rolling. It would roll down the open channels in great round masses - hesitate for an island, and then roll over it and on. It would fill up all the bays - searching and exploring. It came on board and felt us all over with soft, damp fingers, and we hoisted our sails and fled before it.

...A little farther on, the wind blew harder, but it was steadier...The mountains grew higher and higher, and gossiped together across our heads. And somewhere down at their feet, on that narrow ribbon of water, our boat with the white sails flew swiftly along, completely dwarfed by its surroundings. ~ M. Wylie Blanchet

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails. ~ Green Day

Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates. ~ Amit Goswami

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

I just about prevent myself from laughing, but the information that coffee is basically faery Viagra just totally took the wind out of my sails. ~ Liz De Jager

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything. ~ Maggie Smith

I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash ... you add a longer tail ... you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly. ~ Erma Bombeck

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails. ~ Ramakrishna

She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft. ~ Homer

Now gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ... ~ John Geddes

You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no trophy for the team that sails the most. ~ James Spithill

If the yacht's sails were wind-tattered, if its polished brass and varnished wood were scarred from a hundred successful voyages, it would have suited him, because character should always come before beauty. ~ Neal Shusterman

You were born to win. ~ Troy Clark

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

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them. ~ Alejandro Cremades

Trying to have wisdom without application is like trying to catch the winds without raising the sails! ~ Thomas Russell

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously. ~ Frank Gehry

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

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world. ~ Al Purdy

I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story. ~ Pete Docter

The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm ... and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails. ~ Elizabeth Edwards

You know, like I said, I'm not going to adjust my Senior Tour schedule. ~ Greg Norman

we might as well be afloat as earthbound, the heave and fall beneath me the rise of planking, and the sound of the pines the wind in our sails. ~ Diana Gabaldon

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ~ Confucius

Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1. ~ Luana Ehrlich

Every big dream begins with a little nap. ~ Yohann Dafeu

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize. ~ Timothy Geithner

Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.
Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward, ~ Kahlil Gibran

People say write what you know, but I say write about what makes your blood race. Write about that, and your words will become sails filled with a strong wind. ~ Ellery Adams

Around and around there came a sound of sails popping in the wind. The Queen Anne she swayed, on her right side she laid and swung around us again. ~ M.R. Williamson

For my part, whether sailing in cruiser or dinghy, I shall remain myself. My sails are not puffed out with the north wind in my favour, nor am I beating into the southern gales of affliction. ~ Horace

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven. ~ Charles Spurgeon

The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain. ~ Roberto Bolano

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. ~ Will Durant

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

TRUST ADJUST
An act that changes perception can elevate or lower integrity ~ Kamil Ali

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

She tilted her head back, breathing deeply. It was a stone gray day, the sea a bleak slate broken up by whitecaps, the sky pleated with thick ripples of cloud. A hard wind filled the sails, carrying the little boat over the waves.
'It feels good to be this kind of cold,' she murmured.
'This kind?'
'Wind in your hair, sea spray on your skin. The cold of the living. ~ Leigh Bardugo

The 'tail' of a comet, by the way, is a train of dust, but it is not streaming out behind the head of the comet as we might think. Instead, it is 'blown' by a stream of particles coming from the sun, which we call the solar wind. So the tail of the comet always points away from the sun, no matter which way the comet is travelling. There's an exciting proposal, once confined to science fiction stories but now being implemented by Japanese space engineers, to use the solar wind to propel spacecraft equipped with gigantic 'sails'. Like sailing yachts on the sea using real wind, solar wind space-yachts would theoretically provide a very economical way to travel to distant worlds. ~ Richard Dawkins

If you want success, then be your own success story. ~ Steven Cuoco

We can't conquer the things that are bigger than ourselves; we can't even escape them. It is the wind that decides our destination, far more than ourselves. All that we are able to do is pack our bags, hop on board, raise the anchor and set the sails. We can only trust the wind and go on and on. ~ Meara O'Hara

I always try to adjust to the situation. ~ Novak Djokovic

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it. ~ Henry Cloud

Over my career, I've had to adjust my game. ~ Dwyane Wade