64 Boat Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing boat sayings.
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Short Boat Sayings
“Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.” —Zig Ziglar
“The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.” —Bill Copeland
“Shells sink, dreams float. Life’s good on our boat.” —Jimmy Buffett
“O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.” —John F. Kennedy
“But not just about me. It has to be about the boat.” —Prologue
“I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.” —Orson Welles
“The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.” —Paulo Coelho
“Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.” —Felicity Kendal
“Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.” —Proverb
“Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” —William Shakespeare
“For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.” —Alanis Morissette
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” —Unknown
“A boat without captain cannot remain long on the surface!” —Mehmet Murat ildan
“It’s the sea’s tides that change man’s will and challenges his spirit.” —Anthony T.Hincks
“It’s better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.” —Unknown
“The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.” —John Rousmaniere
“After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.” —Proverb
“Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!” —Mehmet Murat ildan
“We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.” —Christie Watson
“Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.” —Unknown
“Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.” —Plutarch
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” —Unknown
“The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.” —Proverb
“The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.” —John Rousmaniere
“A sailing ship may not fly in the sky, but it can sail pretty close to it.” —Anthony T.Hincks
“Time is a river, and books are boats.” —Dan Brown
“Life is better on the boat.” —Unknown
“The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.” —Proverb
Boat Sayings
“Reaction a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.” —Victor Hugo
“Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.” —Robert Fulghum
“There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” —Kenneth Grahame
“Why, man, if the river were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears: if the wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs.” —William Shakespeare
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.” —Yoko Ono
“We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.” —Anna Freud
“Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.” —Esther Hicks
“Give a man a horse he can ride, Give a man a boat he can sail; And his rank and wealth, his strength and health, On sea nor shore shall fail.” —James Thomson
“The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it has a hole, then it cannot cross the ocean, so the first duty is to fix the boat.” —Baba Hari Dass
“Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.” —Rumi
“If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.” —Sebastian Vettel
“Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.” —Arsene Houssaye
“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
“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
“We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.” —G. K. Chesterton
“Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don’t like them. Can’t sell kids.” —Lin Pardey
“The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.” —Ernest Hemingway
“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
“If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me. One day I’ll know, if I go there’s just no telling how far I’ll go.” —Moana
“The right woman for you wouldn’t want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn’t rock your boat, she’d jump right in and sail it with you.” —Alice Clayton
“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
“Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.” —Arsene Houssaye
“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
“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
“Don’t focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.” —Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Top Ten Boat Sayings
Here you will find top ten Boat Sayings selected by our team.
- “A boat without captain cannot remain long on the surface!” —Mehmet Murat ildan
- “We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.” —Anna Freud
- “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.” —Alanis Morissette
- “Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” —William Shakespeare
- “Why, man, if the river were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears: if the wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs.” —William Shakespeare
- “The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.” —Paulo Coelho
- “The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.” —Proverb
- “Shells sink, dreams float. Life’s good on our boat.” —Jimmy Buffett
- “Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.” —Rumi
