Adjust Your Own Sails

I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)

To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter

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

Today's affirmation:
I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

What Can Christopher Columbus Teach Us Today?

Tested by Storms

An Anchor And A Sail

Being the Melody

Where do you want to go?
      

We Must Sail, Not Drift

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)

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

I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley

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

To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt paraphrasing Oliver Wendell Holmes

Further reading: Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

Tested by Storms

What Can Christopher Columbus Teach Us Today?

An Anchor And A Sail
    

Adjust Your Sails

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)

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

I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley

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

We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter

To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes

Today's affirmation:
I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Boldly Sail the Storms of Life

What Can Christopher Columbus Teach Us Today?

Tested by Storms

An Anchor And A Sail

Being the Melody

Where do you want to go?

Winds of Grace

The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous

Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

Further reading: Uplifting

What I Know - What I Don't Know

Trust in the Light

Grace Quotes

Comfort Quotes

Blessings

Cheer Up Quotes

Uplifting Messages

Sails

Positive Quote of the Day

The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous

Funny Quote of the Day

Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein

Love Quote of the Day

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Further reading: How to Choose Your Life Purpose

How to be Positive Around Negative People

Steve Jobs' Three Rules of Life

Words of Wisdom

Insightful Quotes

Inspirational Words

Quotes that Make You Think

Quotes to Live By

Remember that you are the captain of your ship of life.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. - Bertha Calloway (attributed) 

 If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. - Anthony Robbins 

 How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most” - Stephen R. Covey 

 Remember that you are the captain of your ship of life. 

 Further reading: Choose Your Habits, Choose Your Life 

  How to Motivate Yourself 

  Success Tip: Drive Change

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. - Louisa May Alcott

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things 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.
- Mark Twain

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)

Dream, Take Action, Repeat.

Further reading: This Above All, to Thine Own Self Be True

I will move with the wind - Mary Anne Radmacher

I will dance a little. I will move with the wind. - Mary Anne Radmacher 

 I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures. - Geronimo 

 We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. - Bertha Calloway (attributed) 

  Live to experience something new each day - to learn something new, to meet a new friend, to bring joy into someone's life, to feel the wind newly on your skin, to touch a new fear and a new anger, and with focused intent and good fortune, to find an ample measure of your own joy. - jlh 

Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Bertha Calloway: We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (Founder of the Great Plains Black Museum)