Calm Seas Quotes

• Calm seas never made a good sailor

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  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sea   Sailor   Calm  

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• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

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  Ovid

  Men   Sea   Sailing  

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• One's ships come in over a calm sea.

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  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Sea   Ships   Calm  

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.41, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

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  Bernard Moitessier

  Inspirational   Funny   Hate  

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.62, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

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  John Ray

  Men   Sea   Pilots  

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.4

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• Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

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  Lucretius

  Sea   Calm   Never Trust  

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• At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.

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  Francoise Sagan

  Night   Sea   Goes On  

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• There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

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  Willa Cather

  Inspirational   Summer   Nature  

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.

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  Sylvester Stallone

  Loyalty   Writing   Passion  

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• At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.

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  Gary D.

  Son   Sea   Quality  

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• Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

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  George Washington

  Blow   Wind   Sea  

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• The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time, cry the birds, to stay! When the deep calm sea and the deep sky over Both look their passion through sun-kissed space, As a blue-eyed maid and her blue-eyed lover Might each gaze into the other's face.

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  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Fashion   Passion   Autumn  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1106, Delphi Classics

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• Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

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  Bill Hybels

  Encouraging   Uplifting   Courage  

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• Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom   4th Of July   Men  

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.238, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.

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  Stevie Nicks

  Blue   Sea   Storm  

  Song: Sisters Of The Moon

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• The courage to press on regardless - regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us - is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.

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  John C. Bogle

  Successful   Sea   Storm  

  "A Tale of Two Markets". Speech at the Trinity University Policymaker Breakfast Series, www.vanguard.com. April 16, 2001.

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