456 Sea Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in 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

Love Music Nature Man Lonely Society Pleasure Rapture More Roar None Shore Where Woods Sea Less Deep

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Khalil Gibran

Love Relationship You Dance Winds Rather Between Make Another Souls Shores Heavens Spaces Moving Togetherness Your Sea Bond

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Work You People Long Build Immensity Collect Rather Drum Ship Up Tasks Endless Wood Want Them Teach Sea Assign

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. Saint Augustine

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. Jules Verne

Time Together Space Enemies Will Wind Fall Other Meet Crowd Throw Open Put Come Tide Without Inevitably Question Ships Place Midst Planets Sea Last Two Fatality

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock

Nature Sky Books Earth Some More Excellent Rivers Learn Mountain Than Woods Lakes Fields Us Teach Sea Ever

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory. Alan Arkin

You Sometimes Big Calm Ocean Think Wave Waves Way Some Steady Small Take Look Glory Going Deciding Upward Which Gonna Your Sea March Career

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? Ralph Marston

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I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time. John Dyer

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. Nikola Tesla

Human Being Control Waves Though Willful Tossed About Entirely He Like Within Without Governed His Human Being Influences Predetermined Turbulent Sea Actions Appear Float External

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions. Robert Fulghum

Loneliness Solitude Solitary Possible Same Boat Sea Companions Floating

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. William Golding

Patience Nile Must Woven He Sails Sea Who Rides

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka

Book Within Frozen Us Should Sea Serve Ax

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo

Soul Interior Sky Than Grander Sea Spectacle

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. Algernon Charles Swinburne

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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. King Solomon

Run Rivers Full Sea

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. William Shakespeare

Great Nature Men Live Eat Great Ones Fishes Up Little Sea

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