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75+ Best Sailing Quotes for Your Inner Sailor

The freedom that comes with casting off the lines and heading out into open water is something many authors, poets, and explorers have aimed to express in words.

This list contains the best sailing quotes, whether from a famous writer or an avid sailor.

Many of these famous quotes about sailing are inspirational, while others represent the challenges of a sailing lifestyle. Other sayings on the list are sailing metaphors for life – inspiration for all sailors, world travelers, and adventurers!

Find a specfic type of sailing quote in the sections below, or browse all the quotes.

Sail Away Quotes

Below are sailor sayings that express what it feels like to live on the ocean. These quotes make you want to cast off the lines and sail away with no plan for return to port.

1. “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” —  Joseph Conrad, Polish-British Writer

2. “I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea.” —  Alaine Gerbault, French Sailor

3. “Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.” —  Van Morrison, Irish Singer-Songwriter

4. “Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.” —  Amelia Earhart, American Aviation Pioneer & Author

5. “A man is never lost at sea.” —  Ernest Hemingway, American Writer

6. “It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” ―  Sir Francis Drake, English Explorer

7. “The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.” —   Joshua Slocum, First Person to Single-Hand Circumnavigate

8. “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.” — E.E. Cummings, American Poet & Author

9. “To young men contemplating a voyage, I’d say go.” — Joshua Slocum, First Person to Single-Hand Circumnavigate

Inspirational Sailing Quotes

These are our favorite sailing and sailboat quotes that capture the feeling of a day on the water.

10. “A bad day sailing is 100 times better than a good day at work.” —  Unknown

11. “Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul and spirit fly, into the mystic.” — Van Morrison, Northern Irish Singer & Songwriter

12. “It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.” — Vito Dumas, Argentine Solo Sailor & Circumnavigator

13. “You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed.” — David Sedaris, Theft by Finding: Diaries

14. “The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.” — Henry David Thoreau, American Poet & Philosopher

15. “On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.” — Rumi, Persian Poet

16. “Confronting a storm is like fighting God. All the powers in the universe seem to be against you and, in an extraordinary way, your irrelevance is at the same time both humbling and exalting.” — Francis LeGrande

Sailing Quotes About Life

These are our favorite sailing quotes that are metaphors for life and translate to its many challenges and struggles.

17. “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” ―  Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter

18. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” ―  Louisa May Alcott, American Poet

19. “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” ―  Seneca, Roman Philosopher

20. “I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” ― William Ernest Henley, English Poet & Writer

21. “Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.” —  Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

22. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ―  Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Philosopher

23. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” ―  William Arthur Ward, American Writer

24. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ―  Mark Twain, American Writer

25. “On life’s vast ocean, diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.” ―  Alexander Pope, English Poet

26. “One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.” —  Henry Miller, American Writer & Artist

27. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” —  Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President

28. “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Christopher Columbus, Italian Explorer

29. “Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.” ―  Joseph Conrad,   Polish-British Writer

30. “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather, American Writer

Cruising Quotes

These quotes are for the full-time cruisers living a life on the water. These are some of our favorite sayings about modern-day life on a sailboat.

31. “To be successful at sea, we must keep things simple.” ―   Pete Culler, Author & Renowned Wooden Boat Builder

32. “Go small, go simple, go now.” ―  Larry Pardey, Sailor & Writer

33. “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” —  Robin Lee Graham, American Sailor

34. “The single commandment of anchoring is ‘thou shall create scope.'” ― Reese Palley, Art Dealer & Circumnavigator

35. “The charm of singlehanded cruising is not solitude, but independence.” — Claud Worth, Master Mariner & Writer

36. “The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.” —  Dom Degnon, Yacht Broker & Freelance Writer

37. “Cruising is fixing your boat in exotic locations.” —  Unknown

38. “Home is where the anchor drops.” —  Unknown

39. “If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.”   —  Pete Goss, British Sailor

40. “The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one’s imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.” —  Jimmy Cornell, British Sailor & Author

41. “It’s remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.” —  Ernest K. Gann, American Sailor & Author

Sailing and Adventure Quotes from Novels

These quotes are from some of our favorite novels. They encapsulate life on the water, the sailing lifestyle, and seeking adventure!

42. “Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.” —  Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

43. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.” ―  Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

44. “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” ―  Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild

45. “The truths of the sea, like the truths of the soul, cannot be reduced to numbers.” ― Webb Chiles, The Ocean Waits

46. “There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of ’em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you’d much better not.” —  Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Quotes About Ships

Whether as vessels of exploration, symbols of resilience, or metaphors for life’s journey, ships have long captured the esscense of the adventurer’s spirit.

47. “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.” ―  John A. Shedd, American Author

48. “The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.” — John Rousmaniere, American Author

49. “It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a ship needs but what a ship is…what the Black Pearl really is…is freedom.” —  Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

50. “A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be.” ― Aubrey de Selincourt, English Writer

51. “Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid.” — Robert N. Rose, Poet

Ocean Quotes

These quotes are specifically about the ocean or the sea. If you are a sailor or beach lover, I’m sure you love to romanticize the sea, and these quotes will resonate with you.

52. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ―  Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Naval Officer

53. “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, 35th U.S. President

54. “Dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” ―  Christy Ann Martine, Canadian Poet

55. “At the beach, life is different. Time doesn’t move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.” ―  Sandy Gingras, Writer & Illustrator

56. “Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.” ―  Sylvia Earle, American Marine Biologist

57. “If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.” ―  Jimmy Buffett, American Singer-Songwriter

58. “The sea is a desert of waves, a wilderness of water.” —  Langston Hughes, American Poet

Funny Sailing Quotes

This selection features funny sailing quotes from poets, writers, and modern-day cruisers, that explore the lighter side of life at sea.

59. “Sailing – The fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense while being cold, wet, and miserable.” — Irv Heller

60. “The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.” — Carl Sandburg, American Poet

61. “Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.” —  Sir Francis Chichester, Sailor & Author (First Man to Single-Hand Circumnavigate Non-Stop)

62. “Later down the road of life, I made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.” — Jimmy Buffett, American Singer-Songwriter (A Pirate Looks at Fifty)

63. “Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port, and the other was an atrocious liar.” —  Don Bamford, Sailor & Author

64. “The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.” — Ted Turner, Entrepreneur & America’s Cup Winner

65. “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” ‍‍— Brooks Atkinson, American Theatre Critic

66. “When the draught of your vessel exceeds the depth of the water, you are most assuredly, aground.” — Ian Walsh

67. “A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway.” — Webb Chiles , Writer & Sailor

68. “Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified, I know.” — Donald Hamilton, American Writer

69. “If we get lost, we’ll just pull in somewhere and ask directions.” — Captain Ron Rico (Captain Ron)

70. “The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.” — Eric Hiscock, British Sailor & Author

Sailing Quotes from Movies

These unforgettable sailing quotes are all from the silver screen, where the sea has played a starring role in captivating audiences for decades.

71. “A diesel loves her oil same as a sailor loves rum.” — Captain Ron Rico (Captain Ron)

72. “It’s not just sails and knots, it’s seeing where you’re going in your mind. Knowing where you are by knowing where you’ve been.” — Maui (Moana)

73. “You know, there have been more people in space than have sailed around the world. I didn’t even know it was something you can do, but you can, and I want to. ‘Cause I’m an adventurer.” — Jessica Watson (True Spirit)

74. “You can’t run from the wind. You trim your sails, face the music, and keep going.”  — Captain Christopher “Skipper” Sheldon (White Squall)

75. “Now…bring me that horizon.” —  Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)

76. “But it ain’t all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flying is? Love. You can learn all the math in the ‘Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don’t love, she’ll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she’s hurtin’ ‘fore she keens. Makes her a home.” — Captain Malcolm Reynolds (Serenity)

READ NEXT: Check out many of the movies that feature these quotes on our sailing movies list .

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I’m sure I’m missing some other famous sailing quotes, so feel free to leave your favorite nautical saying in the comments below or even a personal quote that resonates with you!

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Id rather be lost at sea then found at work…..Anon.

I can definitely relate to this one!

The cost of good navigation is constant vigilance.

All sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable. They live in the varying outer weather and inhale its fickleness – and when retained for any object remote and blank in the pursuit, however promissory of life and passion in the end, it is above all things requisite that temporary interests and employments should intervene to hold them healthily suspended for the final dash. – Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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65 Inspirational Cruising Quotes + FREE Images for Instagram

Are you looking for the best cruising quotes? You’re in the right place.

It’s difficult to put into words just how wonderful cruising is.

I myself have been on seven cruises ! These include small sailboats, riverboats, and large cruise ships all over the world. I long to share with family and friends how a cruise is more than a vacation …

That’s where this list of cruise quotes come in!

In this post, I’ll list my favorite quotes about cruising! From ship, sailing, and river cruise quotes to the funniest cruise quotes and sayings, I’ve scoured the internet to find the very best quotes so you don’t have to.

I’ve even included some fun cruise quote images to download for your Instagram! Keep scrolling to get inspired.

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Inspiring Cruising Quotes

Cruising seems to personify the best of everything. It’s easy to see why. From sea views and sunsets to leisurely meals for two, cruising is certainly a favorite pastime of many, with the global cruise industry welcoming nearly 30 million passengers annually (pre-COVID)!

Keep reading this section below for some of the most inspiring cruise quotes that get to the heart of cruising.

1. “A man is never lost at sea.” ― Ernest Hemingway

2. “Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.” ― Captain Jack Sparrow

3. “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.” ― E.E. Cummings

4. “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― Christopher Columbus

5. “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.” ― William Shedd

6. “The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.” ― Joshua Slocum

7. “ On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. ” ― Rumi

8. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out and meet it. ” ― Jonathan Winters

9. “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” ― Robin Lee Graham

Cruise Ship Quotes

Cruising isn’t just about the destinations you’ll visit. In fact, some would say it isn’t about that at all! In many ways, the cruise ship itself is the destination.

In fact, 1/3 of guests don’t even get off the cruise ship each day, choosing instead to enjoy the time aboard. While we love a quiet pool, we also love to check out the ports!

In any case, listed below are a few of my favorite boat cruise quotes.

10. “Cruising is fixing your boat in exotic locations.” — Author Unknown

11. “To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives.” ― Carleton Mitchell

12. “The thing I realized these last few days is that the earth is a big place.” — Paul Cayard

13. “The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one’s imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.” — Jimmy Cornell

14. “Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid.” — Robert N. Rose

15. “The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.”   — Dom Degnon

Sailing Quotes

The opportunity to sail on a sailboat is something I treasure. Truly, watching the crew adeptly steer the boat with only the power of the wind was mind-blowing.

So what makes sailing so magical? Check out these sailing quotes to find out.

16. “I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea.” — Alaine Gerbault

17. “A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be.” — Aubrey de Selincourt

18. “It’s remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.” ― Ernest K. Gann

19. “Sailors, with their built-in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.” — Nicholas Monsarrat

20. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain

21. “A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind.” — Webb Chiles

22. “The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.”  ― Henry David Thoreau

23. “It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” — Sir Francis Drake, English Explorer

River Cruise Quotes

River cruising is becoming more well-known these days with the opportunity to float all around the world. The slow rhythm, the tastes, and the tiny ports are all part of what makes river cruising undeniably wonderful.

Ask anyone who has been on a river cruise, and they will tell you it’s hard to beat. (My mom cites river cruising on Avalon Waterways as the best trip she’s ever taken, and she has taken a lot!)

Until you visit, look no further for some amazing quotes related to river cruising.

24. “A good river is nature’s life work in song.” — Mark Helprin

25. “I had no plans of any destination. I wish to flow like a river.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

26. “I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” — John O’Donohue

27. “The journey, not the arrival matters.” — T.S. Elliot

28. “The river has great wisdom and whispers its secrets to the hearts of men.” — Mark Twain

29. “A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.” — Laura Gilpin

30. “Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.” — Henry David Thoreau

Funny Cruise Quotes

Cruising isn’t all moonlight and relaxing. It’s certainly a place to enjoy everything the ship, the water, the crew, and the ports have to offer! Thus, this list wouldn’t be complete without some silly cruise quotes.

In this section, I share some of the best funny cruise quotes, so read on for some laughs.

31. “A bad day sailing is still better than a good day at work.” — Author Unknown

32. “If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it.”  — Jimmy Buffett

33. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out and meet it.” — Andrew Barger

34. “ My doctor says I need more vitamin sea in my life.” — Author Unknown

35. “ The sea finds out everything you did wrong.” — Francis Stokes

36. “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” — Brooks Atkinson

37. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

38. “ I Googled my symptoms, and it turns out I just need a cruise.” — Author Unknown

Short Cruise Quotes

When it comes to quotes, sometimes shorter is sweeter! This is unlike the cruise, itself, in my opinion!

Take a moment to reflect on these short and sweet inspirational cruise quotes.

39. “Cruise and muse.” — Author Unknown

40. “ On the sea, life moves at the pace of the waves. ” — Author Unknown

41. “ Seas the day! ” — Author Unknown

42. “ The ocean is a mighty harmonist. ” — William Wordsworth

43. “ Cruising has stolen my heart. ” — Author Unknown

There’s hardly anything more calming than the sea. Yes, there’s a reason to book a balcony room on a cruise ship or a seaside villa. There’s just something about the ocean that makes everything alright. (Just writing about it is making me feel calmer actually.)

Read this section for some of the top quotes on the sea, ocean, and beach.

44. “Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.” — Sylvia Earle

45. “How inappropriate it is to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Sea.” — Arthur C. Clarke

46. “ Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly. ” ― Van Morrison

47. “ Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

48. “ In losing complete awareness of time, I felt pure freedom. I was becoming one with the sea.” — Michelle Segrest

49. “No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.” — Felix Riesenberg

50. “I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” — John Masefield

51. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” — Jacques Cousteau

Cruise Quotes for Instagram

After your vacation, you’ll surely want to share your photos on Instagram (or your other favorite social platform.) You can use any of the quotes on this page as Instagram captions.

But, here are some cruise quotes for Instagram with that certain spark. Use them alone or to start off your captions , expanding on the ideas they profess. (PS: Scroll to then to grab some images to use, too.)

52. “Can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” ― Ricky Skaggs

53. “The great difference between voyages rests not in ships, but in the people you meet on them.” ― Amelia Barr

54. “The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.” ― Isak Dinesen

55. “You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed.” ― David Sedaris

56. “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” ― Willa Cather

57. “Never in my life before have I experienced such beauty, and fear at the same time.” ― Ellen MacArthur

58. “Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” ― Author Unknown

Cruising Sayings and Slogans

Need some cruise sayings? Look no further than this section.

I’ve collected some of the sweetest sayings about cruising, sailing, and life.

59. “Home is where the anchor drops.” ― Author Unknown

60. “The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” ― Author Unknown

61. “Mackerel skies and mares tails, soon will be time to shorten sails. ” ― Sailors’ Proverb

62. “I’d rather be cruisin’” ― Author Unknown

63. “Watch more sunsets than Netflix.” ― Author Unknown

64. “An ocean breeze puts your mind at ease.” ― Author Unknown

65. “Life’s too short to stay on land.” ― Author Unknown

Last Thoughts on Cruise Quotes

I don’t know about you, but these cruise quotes have without a doubt inspired me. I’m ready to book my next cruise, how about you?

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50+ Inspirational Cruise Travel Quotes – The Ultimate Collection

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Do you love cruising quotes?

These days, I’ve been dreaming about cruising and traveling once again. It inspired me to update this post and include more than 50 cruise travel quotes that I find inspiring, and I hope you do too.

During the last year, not being able to cruise and travel freely, has reminded me that travel must not be taken for granted. Seeing destinations by cruise ship, meeting people from all over the world, waking up to the ocean waves every day…

There’s something about cruising that’s special . The combination of life onboard a cruise ship and traveling to different destinations is a perfect pairing!

If you love cruise travel, I hope that you’ll enjoy these cruise quotes and that they’ll bring back memories and fuel your wanderlust for cruising once again.

50 Inspiring Cruise Quotes for Those that Love Travel and the Sea

These cruising quotes and sayings were written by authors, artists, sailors, and those in different walks of life. Some will be familiar to you, but I guarantee that you’ll find some new cruise travel quotes that will inspire you as much as me!

I’ve paired the cruising quotes with some of my own cruise travel photos as well as other inspiring images of destinations and cruise ports around the world.

Please feel free to save these cruise travel quotes to your favorite Pinterest board as inspiration. The quotes also make great Instagram captions.

1. “I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”

– Alaine Gerbault, Sailor

This cruise travel quote describes perfectly the feeling of a cruise vacation. It’s more than a vacation, it’s an adventure.

2. “Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”

-Robert Henri

The ocean seems to have a healing power, and reminds us of our resilience and strength.

3.”Adventure is worthwhile”

– Aesop

Where would you like to go? Travel changes us in a good way, and the experience is always worth it.

4. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

—  H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Interesting fact about this famous quote

This has always been my favorite life quote. Then, when we started cruising years ago, it became my most inspiring cruise travel quote as well. 

However, I recently discovered that this quote has been misattributed to Mark Twain for years. The quote was actually written by H. Hackson Brown Jr., who attributes it to his mother in his book P.S. I Love You. 

I think the words of wisdom are amazing just the same (although I still love Mark Twain).

5. “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

– Ibn Battuta

One of the things I’m so grateful for, is the travel experiences we’ve had while cruising. Whenever I meet someone on a cruise who has traveled a lot, I know that I’m in for some amazing stories!

6. “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.”

– Brooks Atkinson

If you love cruising , this cruise quote hits the nail on the head. There is something magical about arriving to your destination by cruise ship!

7. “The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.”

– Joshua Slocum

8. “I travel because seeing photos in books and brochures wasn’t good enough for me. To be there, that was everything.”

– Wiremu Ratcliffe

I love this travel quote because it’s so true. Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but being able to be there in person is truly priceless.

9. “It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.”

-Vito Dumas

This simple quote reminds me of the feeling I have on a cruise, when I look out at the sea. I can’t wait to get back to this again.

10. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

– Dalai Lama

11. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float. To roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.”

– Hans Christian Anderson

One of the best travel quotes, I love how Hans Christian Anderson included sailing or cruising in this famous saying.

12. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”

– John Steinbeck

They say travel changes you. This amazing quote illustrates it perfectly.

13. “The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.”

– Isak Dinesen

14. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.”

– Wallace Stevens

15. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

16. “It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.”

— Sir Francis Drake, Sea Captain

Many cruise addicts would agree with this top cruise quote!  

17. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

– Hillaire Belloc

18. “Some people get lost for so long, that they forgot what it was like to be themselves. Find yourself again.”

– Anonymous

We aren’t meant to simply work and pay bills. This quote reminds us that we need to travel and find what makes us feel alive again.

19. “With age, comes wisdom, with travel comes understanding.”

– Sandra Lake

20. “The journey, not the arrival matters.”

– T.S. Eliot

21. “I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”

– Louise May Alcott

22. “ Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

– Helen Keller

Cruising gives us a chance to say yes to new adventures. Whether you cruise solo, as a couple or family, the travel experiences will be memorable.

23. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”

-Trenton Lee Stewart

This quote reminds us of the romance of cruising . Balcony breakfasts, fine dining, sunrises and sunsets at sea – there is nothing better.

24. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.”

– Michael Palin

This travel quote is absolutely true! I would add that once the cruise bug bites, there is no escaping that cruising addiction!

25. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

– Mark Twain

26. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.”

– Hellen Keller

27. “Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.”

– Kristen Butler

28. “If one doesn’t know to which port one is sailing, no port is favorable.”

– Lucius Annaneus Seneca

29. “The eye has to travel.”

– Deena Vreeland

30. “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”

– Zora Neale Hurston

31. “Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.”

– Jamie Lyn Beatty

32. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

-Marcel Proust

33. “May you live all the days of your life.”

– Jonathan Swift

34. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

– Hilaire Belloc

35. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves.”

– Pico Iyer

36. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

37. “take every chance in life, because some things only happen once.”.

– Karen Gibbs

38. “In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.”

– Charles M. Schulz

39. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built.”

– John A. Shedd

40. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of looking at things.”

– Henry Miller

41. “The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.”

– Amelia A. Barr

42. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

– Anita Desai

43. “Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you.”

44. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

– Mary Ann Radmacher

45. “You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed.”

– David Sedaris

46. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

Gustave Flaubert

47.  “Make time for travel. The memories will last a lifetime.”

– Ilana Schattauer

48. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”

– Sir Richard Burton

49. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

50. “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

This cruise travel quote is another favorite of mine. In truth, whether on a cruise ship, boat or even at the beach , the ocean seems to call.

51.”We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

Aristotle Onassis

52. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

– Susan Sontag

53. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

54. “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”

– Unknown

55. “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”

– Andre Gide

56. “Happiness is living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” 

– Leo Tolstoy

57. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are”

– Edith Wharton

58. “No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.”

– Felix Riesenberg

Funny Cruise Quotes

59. “there is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.”.

60. “If it wasn’t for seasickness, all the world would be sailors.”

– Charles Darwin

61. “Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.”

– Gayland Anderson

Isn’t this the truth? There’s nothing like going on a cruise! If you agree, and can’t wait until your next cruise, please let me know in the comments below.

Cruise Quotes from Song Lyrics

62. “sailing takes me away to where i’ve always heard it could be. just a dream and the wind to carry me, and soon i will be free.”.

– Christopher Cross

Does anything say it better than these song lyrics? Please let me know if there are other songs about cruising and sailing that you love.

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Final thoughts: 50+ Inspirational Cruise Travel Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

I hope you enjoyed these inspirational cruise travel quotes and that they reminded you of your love of cruising, travel and the sea .

Why do I love cruising?

Cruising is a way to see and experience the world, while traveling by sea. It’s a chance to meet people from all over the world, both on the cruise ship and on shore, and discover what you have in common, as well as the interesting differences. It is reconnecting with those you love, as well as yourself. 

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My favorite quote is 20 years from now. How true that is 20 years I will probably in a old folks home. Looking back I can see all the wonderful things I did. Thanks for all you do.

I love that quote too! Time is the most precious thing we have. Glad you live by it and it’s so meaningful!

Thanks so much Russell!

Truly, great cruise travel quotes! I have really saved most of them. Some of my favorites are: 1) “I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.” Where else, you could get the freedom, open air, and lots of adventure in the form of diving, fishing, and encounters with sea animals. 2) Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Life should be worth telling stories to the next generation. And the only way to do so is cruise traveling.

Hi Pranita,

I love your interpretations of these quotes! Glad to know that you enjoyed this post and the cruise travel quotes.

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Sailing Quotes: 50+ Sayings About the Ocean

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Last Updated on October 9, 2021 by Amy

Whether you are just starting out and learning how to sail or have completed a world circumnavigation like us , sometimes it helps to be reminded why we do this. There are many benefits to the cruising life, and some inspirational words always help me get there. And at the moment, they make me miss cruising! That’s why I’ve compiled a list of over fifty sailing quotes to remind me how great – or how impactful, awe-inspiring, and essential the cruising life can be.

Are you just starting out? Or are you in the slumps about cruising? I hope some of these quotes about the sailing and cruising life will make you laugh, think, or even, dare I say it, want to go sailing.

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Inspirational Boat Quotes

“To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor. Sail, not drift.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” ―  Ricky Skaggs

“You must never despise the port you were born because no matter how small or how bad it is, it is the place you have started sailing to the universe!” ―  Mehmet Murat ildan

“We each have our oceans and seas that we travel on.” ―  Anthony T Hincks

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” ― Helen Keller

“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

“I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” ― John Masefield

Dark Subjects

“She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.” ― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“Sometimes I pretend I’m an anchor because there’s a difference between sinking and drowning.” ―  R.I.D. Inkskinned

“When  Predator  sailed into war, she  sang . The rapid winds and rising shrieks suddenly blended into a single harmonious tone. Lines in the rigging and the yards and the masts themselves quivered in time, and began giving off their own notes of music, in harmony with one another. As the speed increased, the chord rose and rose, and built and  built , until it reached a crescendo of pure, eerie, inhuman fury. Grimm  felt  the music rise around him, felt the ship straining eagerly to her task, and his own heart raced in fierce exultation in time with her. Every line of the ship, every smudge upon her decks, every stain upon the leathers of his aeronauts leapt into his mind in vibrant detail. He could feel the ship’s motion, forward and down, could feel the wind of her passage, could feel the rising terror of his crew. One of the men screamed–one of them always did–and then the entire crew joined in with  Predator , shrieking their battle cries together with their ship’s. The ship would not fail them–Grimm knew it; he felt it, the way he could feel sunlight on his face or the rake of wind in his hair.” ―  Jim Butcher,  The Aeronaut’s Windlass

“So there you have it: hearing voices at sea is not a pathological condition. It’s quite normal. Welcome to the world of illusions at sea. Of mirages, looming, towering, stooping and sinking. Of moons that change size, suns that change shape, horizons that bend, lights that change colour, and sounds that play hide and seek. Of waves that speak, ships that effervesce and whales that turn into baby elephants. For the sea has a lobsterpot full of tricks and illusions to confuse and beguile even the most rational 21st century sailor.” ―  Nic Compton,  Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea

“For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may be a very strong one.” ―  Homer

“Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.” ―  Richelle E. Goodrich,  Making Wishes

Practical Sailing Quotes

“Go small, go simple, go now” ―  Larry Pardey,  Cruising in Seraffyn

“She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used ‘stow’ instead of ‘tidy’ for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.” ―  Philip Pullman,  The Golden Compass

“A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea.” ―  Matshona Dhliwayo

Humorous Yacht Sayings

“Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don’t like them. Can’t sell kids.” ―  Lin Pardey,  Bull Canyon: A Boatbuilder, a Writer and Other Wildlife

“For those of you who wish to get a feel for it, get in the car and bring it up to fifty miles an hour and then stick your head and arms outside and, while driving, try to fold up a simple bath towel in the wind” ―  Gary Paulsen,  Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats

“Charter boats are like books with no covers.” ―  Tania Aebi

“One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.” ―  Alec Wilkinson,  The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

“The winds of fortune tend to favour the sails of those who politely yell out to it, ‘Nice to meet you!” ―  Nabil Sabio Azadi

“You don’t throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.” ―  Matshona Dhliwayo

The Joys of Sailing Quotes

“Seas were meant to be sailed by those with salt in their veins, and love in their heart.” ―  Anthony T.Hincks

“I wanted freedom, open air, adventure. I found it on the sea.” ― Alain Gerbault

“Sailing unties the knots in my mind.” ― Al Noble

To some it’s just water. To me, it’s where I regain my sanity. ― Anonymous

“A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be.” ― Aubrey de Selincourt

“There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet – except in dreams.” ―  Jerome K. Jerome,  Three Men in a Boat

“Just because a sea is calm doesn’t mean that you can believe in its stillness.” ―  Anthony T. Hincks

“When I’m out sailing, I don’t wonder what heaven is like because I know.” ―  Anthony T. Hincks

It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. ― Sir Francis Drake

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. ― Jacques Yves Cousteau

There’s nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him. ― Errol Flynn

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be Pirates” —Mark Twain

“That’s what a ship is, you know—it’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a ship needs. But what a ship is, really is, is freedom.” ― Captain Jack Sparrow, “Pirates of the Caribbean”

“You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed” ―  David Sedaris,  Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002

“Sometimes you need to tether your boats to stop them from following your dreams.” ―  Anthony T. Hincks

There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. ― Kenneth Grahame

“The ocean’s currents are a turbulent emotion which man has yet to come to terms with.” ―  Anthony T. Hincks

“If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves!” ―  Mehmet Murat ildan

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

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. ― William Shedd

“Storms draw out something out of us that calm seas don’t.” ― Bill Hybels

“I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.” ― Bernard Moitessier

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. ― Vincent Van Gogh

“The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you’re sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.” ―  Richelle E. Goodrich,  Making Wishes

“The wind does not change, the wind only blows and gusts, and it swells and swirls, and it whispers.” ―  Christopher X. Shade,  The Good Mother of Marseille

“Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.” ―  Sara Sheridan,  On Starlit Seas

“A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.” ―  Matshona Dhliwayo

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” ― Louisa May Alcott

Distant Horizons

“The wind tousled his hair, and Dain’s chest loosed a little as his gaze broke from the wooden maid to follow a breeze-blown gull toward the horizon. The distant salmon skies dipped over the rim of the sea, and for the first time since boarding, he wondered where the waves might take him.” ―  Micheline Ryckman,   The Maiden Ship

“I hate the strange feeling of wanting to be in two places at once, like a sailor who misses the sea as much as he misses dry land.” ― Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen

“To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of clearing up. After each one looms another, whose shores are even more attractive, more suggestive. Certainly, it requires strength and perseverance to get to windward of problems, but there is no greater delight than to reach new shores, and even to sail, as Camoëns says, “through seas that keel has never cut before.” If you will now open a bank-account of attention for me, I foretell sun-smitten landscapes and promise archipelagoes.” ―  José Ortega y Gasset

“But that’s how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn’t enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.” ―  Carsten Jensen,  We, the Drowned

“At the end of the day…we are anchoring into the peaceful lagoon, smiling at the majestic sun and its flirting rays, slowly slipping into the glittering ballroom of immense night skies, sipping on the platinum moon liquor under the blues of rippling waves kissing my golden foot hanging over the board of gently rocking boat, and diving into the bed of galaxies whispering magical stories of their eternal lives connecting souls…till the dawn…” ―  Oksana Rus

“And there’s that one particular harbour Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within” ― Jimmy Buffett

“Midnight sail and moonlight. I remember sunset, and gentle breeze. Leaving the city lights behind, and gazing at the moon. Mountains of clouds. Waves slapping our boat. It was easy to forget that love has no direction, or need for compass. Let it guide you to its destination.” ―  Fidelis O Mkparu

“Cold November nights. It feels as if summer never happened. The beauty of setting sun, moon, and stars. Sailing to nowhere, but finding happiness in our togetherness. Never forget what we are. Stranded hearts.” ― Fidelis O. Mkparu, Love’s Affliction

“The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto the dark beach, Simmons declared, ‘There can be no better place in the world than this.’ Henderson had to agree. The beach was beautiful. The stars lit the sand and balmy air rode in as the waves washed up on paradise” ―  Sara Sheridan,  On Starlit Seas

“There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the Pacific can ever offer — a ship in full sail edging her way through the blue waters.” ―  Tom Neale,  An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island

“Life on the blue part of the globe for eight years had suited me – the wild open spaces, the bliss of buoyancy, the volatile, soul-powered wind. Sailing had struck a nerve both primal and poetic. On and near the ocean life made sense, It made every sense work.” ―  Kaci Cronkhite

“A true sailor is one who finds love in every port.” ―  Tapan Ghosh

“Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.” ―  Roselle Mercier Montgomery

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. ‍ ― Brooks Atkinson

“Simply sailing in a new direction you could enlarge the world” ―  Allen Curnow

“We didn’t make it around the world, but we were able to wrap the world around us.” ―  Janis Couvreux,  Sail Cowabunga!: A Family’s 10 Years at Sea

“It had occurred to her many times that on board it didn’t matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book – word by word – or crossing a country – step by step – each minute had to be lived moment by moment.” ―  Sara Sheridan,  On Starlit Seas

The Cruising Lifestyle

“The cruising life isn’t for all of us. It isn’t even for most of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival.” ―  Jim Trefethen,  The Cruising Life

“What do you do?” is not a question asked to define someone, because out here we’re all working the same jobs: yachties, mechanics, navigators, weather-readers, fishermen, adventure travelers, storytellers.” ―  Torre DeRoche,  Love with a Chance of Drowning

“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” ― Robin Lee Graham

“Maybe you’re getting into the rhythm of sailing life,” says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. “You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won’t go your way.” ―  Melissa C. Walker,  Unbreak My Heart

“For the most part, a sailboat navigates through its world of wind and water not leaving a single trace of its passage. Nothing is consumed. Nothing is altered. The winds and the water are left in exactly the same condition for the next user. Sailing is forever.” ― Michael B. McPhee

Quotes On Love & Crew

“We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.” ―  Seth Adam Smith

“He stared at her hard and long, as if he were gauging a cloudbank that might be worth the trouble to sail around rather than through.” ―  A.S. Peterson,  Fiddler’s Green

“That’s what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don’t tell her. You have to remember always that she’s the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.” ―  Michael Morpurgo,  Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

“The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.” ― Eric Hiscock

“Now I remembered a captain’s honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.” ―  Carsten Jensen,  We, the Drowned

“We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.” ―  Lew Wallace,  Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Quotes On Departing Ports

“I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn’t acquire the knowledge.” ― Tom Holland

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.” ―  H. Jackson Brown Jr.,  P.S. I Love You

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― Christopher Columbus

“The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that is not the aim of boats.” ― Paulo Coelho

“The thing that most forget while dreamily looking off into the horizon for the ship of their dreams is that such ships never sail in but are built beneath their feet.” ―  Mike Dooley

“The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“The sea was not meant to be controlled. The sea was meant to be sailed.” ―  Jon Acuff

“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.” ― Carl Sandburg

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” ― Joseph Conrad

“How inappropriate it is to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Sea.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

“She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.” ―  George R.R. Martin,  A Storm of Swords

Which sailing quote is your favorite?

Beautiful quotes. A pleasure to read. Thank you using so many of my quotes. “The sea is what makes me feel so young.”

All the best. Anthony T. Hincks

You have a way with words!

Amy, devem existir incontáveis citações célebres envolvendo o mar e o nosso eterno caso de amor, que é velejar. Parabéns pelo seu bom gosto. Surpreendente. Já li algumas mas sua seleção é melhor de todas. Sinceros agradecimentos.

The sea is a good muse! 🙂

I collect sailing/travel quotes and many of these were new to me. What a great list.

And…you corrected my erroneously attributing a certain quote to Mark Twain 😉

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on 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

Thank you, Amy!

I looked up the Mark Twain thing before I posted, because I saw it attributed to both. Geat Bryon quote.

The quote: ‘Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.’ really resonated with me today 🙂

Thanks for all the work putting this lovely collection together.

Aw great to hear from you! 🙂

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Sailor Sayings and Sailing Quotes – Inspirational Quotes for Sailors

Are you a sailor and needs some more inspiration? Here’s my list of Quotes about the sea and sailing on a boat.

Two years ago, when Jonathan and I were still broke backpackers, he told me about how he dreams of sailing the open seas – that someday, he would buy himself a boat. Live in it. And travel around the world with it. And you guessed right; he sure did buy us a sailboat.

Here is the list of some popular sailor sayings and sailing quotes that will have you set before your sailing rendezvous:

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1. Sailors, with their built-in sense of order, service, and discipline, should really be running the world. – Nicholas Monsarrat

2. the wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator. – edmund gibbon, 3. the pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. – william arthur ward.

4. Mackerel skies and mares tails, soon will be time to shorten sails . – sailors proverb

5. the cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. – l. francis herreshoff.

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6. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving – we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

7. A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. – William Shedd

8. You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Christopher Columbus

9. He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. – Leonardo da Vinci

10. He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. – Walter Scott

11. I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. – John Masefield

12. That’s what a ship is, you know – it’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a ship needs. But what a ship is, really is, is freedom. – Capt. Jack Sparrow

13. A tourist remains an outsider throughout his visit, but a sailor is part of the local scene from the moment he arrives. – Anne Davison

14. The perfection of a yacht’s beauty is that nothing should be there for only beauty’s sake.  – John MacGregor

15. A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be. – Aubrey de Selincourt

16. Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid . – Robert N. Rose

17. He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. – Thomas Fuller

18. Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea. – Charles Cook

19. We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. – Aristotle Onassis, Shipping Magnate

20. The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator. – Edmund Gibbon, Historian

21. I wanted freedom, open-air, and adventure. I found it on the sea. – Alaine Gerbault, Sailor

22. It is not the ship so much as the skilful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. – George William Curtis

23. A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!  – Mehmet Murat ildan

24. The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you’re sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them . – Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

25. That’s what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don’t tell her. You have to remember always that she’s the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune. – Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

26. The sea hates a coward. – Eugene O’Neill

27. I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else. – Joshua Slocum

28. If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends . – Enoch Powell

29. 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

30. There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. – Kenneth Grahame

31. I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else. – Joshua Slocum

32. 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

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The 74 Best Sailing Quotes

Ever since its inception, sailing has been linked to a sense of freedom and drive for adventure out on the sea. For many centuries, sailors were considered to be bold and courageous people willing to risk their lives for fortune and honor.

Many people have tried to express the freedom and enjoyment of sailing through words and quotes.

Many great men and women have fallen in love with sailing over the years, giving birth to a practically endless series of funny, happy and inspirational quotes.

Below you will find a comprehensive list of our personal favorites.

Inspirational Sailing Quotes

Our favorite inspirational sailing quotes to get you inspired and motivated are below.

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ‍ ‍-Mark Twain

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore” ‍ ‍-Christopher Columbus

“Sailors, with their built-in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.” ‍ ‍-Nicholas Monsarrat

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

“A bad day sailing is 100 times better than a good day at work.” ‍ ‍-An Unknown Sailor

“Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little” ‍ ‍-Paul Carvel

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” ‍ ‍-Willa Cather

“I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky. And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” ‍ ‍-John Masefield

“To be successful at sea we must keep things simple.” ‍ ‍-Pete Culler

“The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.” ‍ ‍-Ernest Hemingway

“Nothing comes sailing by itself” ‍ ‍-Alexander Dale Oen

“The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself” ‍ ‍-John Rousmaniere

“Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.” ‍ ‍-Charles Cook

“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.” ‍ ‍-William Sheed

“To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go” ‍ ‍-Joshua Slocum

“To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives.” ‍ ‍-Carleton Mitchell

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.” ‍ ‍-Thomas Merton

“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.” ‍ ‍-Alain Gerbault

“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” ‍ ‍-Joseph Conrad

“To reach a port we must set sail - Sail, not tie at anchor - Sail, not drift.” ‍ ‍-Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” ‍ ‍-Vincent Van Gogh

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” ‍ ‍-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” ‍ ‍-Fitzhugh Dodson

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” ‍ ‍-Syrus Publilius

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” ‍ ‍-African proverb

“Can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” ‍ ‍-Ricky Skaggs

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

“He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.” ‍ ‍-Hammond Ines

“Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.” ‍ ‍-Dennis Conner

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.” ‍ ‍-Augustus Hare

“No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.” ‍ ‍-Felix Riesenberg

“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.” ‍ ‍-Ovid

“There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.” ‍ ‍-Thomas Gibbons

“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” ‍ ‍-Robin Graham

“The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.” ‍ ‍-Dom Degnon

“I cannot not sail” ‍ ‍-E. B. White

“The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance” ‍ ‍-Annie Van De Wiele

“When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.” ‍ ‍-Matshona Dhliwayo

“In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.” ‍ ‍-John Ray

Happy Sailing Quotes

Below are our favorite sailing quotes that will make you happy.

“Never in my life before have I experienced such beauty, and fear at the same time.” ‍ ‍-Ellen MacArthur

“The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.” ‍ ‍-Joshua Slocum

“Mackerel skies and mares tails, soon will be time to shorten sails” ‍ ‍-Sailors Proverb

“Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.” ‍ ‍-George Matthew Adams

“Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.” ‍ ‍-Charles Buxton

“Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.” ‍ ‍-Dave Anderson

“I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.” ‍ ‍-Bernard Moitessier

“You haven't lived until you've sailed.” ‍ ‍-David Sedaris

“It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” ‍ ‍-Sir Francis Drake

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ‍ ‍-Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.” ‍ ‍-Edmund Gibbon

“Sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway.” ‍ ‍-Webb Chiles

“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” ‍ ‍-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.” ‍ ‍-George William Curtis

“For the most part, a sailboat navigates through its world of wind and water not leaving a single trace of its passage. Nothing is consumed. Nothing is altered. The winds and the water are left in exactly the same condition for the next user. Sailing is forever.” ‍ ‍-Michael B. McPhee

“Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.” ‍ ‍-Sophocles

“The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting ones imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.” ‍ ‍-Jimmy Cornell

“The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat” ‍ ‍-Francis Herreshoff

“And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.” ‍ ‍-Bob Bitchin

“Sail Now, Work Later” ‍ ‍-An Unknown Sailor

Funny Sailing Quotes

Below are our favorite funny sailing quotes that will make you laugh.

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.” ‍ ‍-Alex Blackwell

“Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.” ‍ ‍-Sir Francis Chichester

“When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land.” ‍ ‍-Dr. Samuel Johnson

“The cure for anything is saltwater - sweat, tears, or the sea.” ‍ ‍-Isak Dinesen

“Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.” ‍ ‍-Charles Davis

“Sailing – The fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense while being cold, wet and miserable.” ‍ ‍-Irv Heller

“The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.” ‍ ‍-Eric Hiscock

“Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port and the other was an atrocious liar.” ‍ ‍-Don Bamford

“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” ‍ ‍-Brooks Atkinson

“Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids.” ‍ ‍-Lin Pardey

Sad Sailing Quotes

Below are our favorite sad sailing quotes that are deeply thoughtful.

“As we sail through life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because calm waters won't make a skillful sailor.” ‍ ‍-Unknown

“The ocean has taken everything from me and yet I still love her.” ‍ ‍-Unknown

“Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.” ‍ ‍-Jean-Paul Sartre

These are our favorite sailing quotes to get you inspired, motivated and happy.

Some of these quotes are deeply thoughtful whilst others are more light- hearted and funny.

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“Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.”  Sir Francis Chichester  

“Every single day since I heard that tap-tapping and knew I had survived, I have told myself I am lucky to be alive. Why go back? Because I’m a racing sailor; that’s what I do. I love the sea, and I love competition. You don’t give up on life just because you once had a narrow shave from death.”  Tony Bullimore

“My mother, when asked for her opinion of the voyage before I sailed, had replied that she considered it ‘totally irresponsible’ and on this Christmas Day I began to think she was right. I was sailing round the world simply because I bloody well wanted to – and, I realised, I was thoroughly enjoying myself.”  Robin Knox-Johnston

“The day passes happily with me wherever my ship sails.”  Joshua Slocum

“The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.”  Annie Van De Wiele

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“I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came. ”  John F. Kennedy

“There have been times on this trip I’ve been convinced that GPS was wrong.”   Chris Robb

“Calm sailing doesn’t come from calm waters, it comes from having a good navigator; a good crew and a good vessel.”  Anthony T. Hincks

“It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.”   Vito Dumas

“The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.”  L. Francis Herreshoff

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“The charm of singlehanded cruising is not solitude, but independence.”  Claud Worth

“When you are in a huge storm, and you’ve set the boat up for the winds, and the autopilot is steering the boat, there’s nothing to do apart from stand there and watch the walls of water breaking around you; it’s an awesome sight.”  Emma Richards

“In splicing, practice makes perfect, and in the doing you will learn more than from reading any ten books on the subject.”  Hervey Garrett Smith

“The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.”  Eric Hiscock

“To win, you have to believe you can do it. You have to be passionate about it. You have to really ‘want’ the result – even if this means years of work. The hardest part of any big project is to begin.”  Sir Peter Blake

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“When you spend so much time pushing, caring for, cajoling and maintaining a beautiful racing machine like this, you get very close. She’s looked after me well, and I look after her. I haven’t been lonely at all.”  Ellen MacArthur

“The chance of mistakes are about equal to the number of crew squared.”   Ted Turner

“The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.”  Arthur Ransome

“I want a boat that drinks six, eats four, and sleeps two.”  Ernest K. Gann

“A sailing ship is no democracy; you don’t caucus a crew as to where you’ll go anymore than you inquire when they’d like to shorten sail.”  Sterling Hayden

The Best Yacht Quotes

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Our collection of quotes on yachting, sailing and sea. Some of them are wise, some other inspirational, some of them are really humorous and some generated controversy. As yachts lovers, we appreciate them a lot and we hope you will enjoy them as well! “Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.” ― David Lee Roth “If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of course, you really want a boat. If you're a person who feels that with a yacht, everything will be all right, then you should do whatever you have to and get the yacht.” ― Albert Brooks “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 “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 “There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.” ― Herman Melville “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” ― Brooks Atkinson “Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.” ― Kurt Vonnegut “All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.” ― John Masefield “Boats, like whiskey, are all good.” ― R. D. Culler "It's out there at sea that you are really yourself." ― Vito Dumas " A tourist remains an outsider throughout his visit; but a sailor is part of the local scene from the monent he arrives." - Anne Davison "I wanted freedom, open air, adventure. I found it on the sea." ― Alain Gerbault, Sailor "No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure." ― Felix Riesenberg "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ― Mark Twain

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56 Influential Travel and Cruise Quotes to Inspire Your Next Vacation

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Travel is one of the best things in life. It broadens your horizons, allows you to meet new people and see new places, and can inspire you.

Traveling by cruise ship is a unique way to see the world and one of the most relaxing and enjoyable vacations. Not to mention, it’s also a great way to see some amazing destinations in a short amount of time. Cruising has something for all, whether you’re looking for relaxation or adventure.

As you begin planning your cruise vacation , it’s always helpful to be inspired by cruise and travel quotes that will excite you about your next cruise trip. Perhaps one of these quotes will stick with you as a few have with us.

We’ve compiled this collection of 56 influential travel and cruise quotes.

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Influential Travel and Cruise Quotes

1 . “travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you.” – unknown.

One of our favorite travel quotes applies to all travel… not just cruising! This cruise quote reminds us that life is short, and we should make the most of it by exploring as much of the world as possible.

2. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Cousteau

This cruise quote comes from the famous French explorer and oceanographer. It reminds us that the cruise vacation experience is truly unique and unforgettable.

3. “ Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times .’ – Asian Proverb

4. “i want to be where the people are.” – the little mermaid, 5. “the cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.” – isak dinesen.

Just take me to the sea! Whether you are planning a beach vacation or a cruise , the sea is the magical cure for it all.

6. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott

This cruise quote encourages us to face our fears and embark on new adventures.

7. “There is something magical about the sea.” – Unknown

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8. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

In other words, cruise adventure is worthwhile. In reality, any travel adventure is worthwhile.

When you cruise, you can choose your adventures at each port destination. Book a fun shore excursion or spend it exploring the port. It’s up to you.

9. “I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool quieting thought. – Hellen Keller

This quote reminds us that a cruise vacation is a perfect opportunity to get away from it all and enjoy some fresh air.

10. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world, you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. – Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain is an iconic figure in the travel industry. Make sure to watch episodes of his travel show No Reservations for further travel inspiration.

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8. “You can find tranquility, you can find party, you can find new friends. I’m a cruise convert.” – Guy Fieri

10. “Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.” – Ambrose Bierce

11. ” my light shall be the moon and my path, the ocean. my guide, the morning star as i sail home to you.“ – enya, 12. “life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – helen keller.

Another favorite! Take that vacation. There is no time better than now.

13. “A sailor’s life is filled with adventure and romance.” – Unknown

Cruising can be full of adventure and romance. Start planning that couple’s cruise getaway or cruise honeymoon.

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

15. “i wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. i found it on the sea.” – alaine gerbault.

16. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau

Once you start cruising, it’s hard to stop. There is something exceptional about cruise vacations and being out in that open sea.

17. “I have found out there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” ― Mark Twain.

18. “i am not afraid of storms, for i am learning how to sail my ship.” – louisa may alcott, 19. “the days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.” – joshua slocum, 20. “ships are the closest things to dreams that land-dwellers will ever experience.” – robert n. rose, 21. “changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes.” – jimmy buffet, 23. “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – lao tz u.

24. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

25. “the world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – saint augustine.

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26. “Just another day in paradise…” – Phil Vassar

One of the many reasons to book a cruise is the port destinations. Every morning is a new day that. You wake up in a new destination… paradise.

28. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin 

30. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – dalai lama.

Whether you venture locally or abroad, explore or eat somewhere new. Always be open to trying new things.

31. “My favorite thing to do is go where I’ve never been.” – Unknown

32. “i’m the king of the world – titanic.

33. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

34. “a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.” – john a. shedd.

This cruise quote encourages us to leave our comfort zones and explore the world. A cruise vacation is a wonderful opportunity to do just that!

35. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

36. “smell the sea and feel the sky. let your soul and spirit fly.” – van morrison, 37. “now, bring me that horizon.” —  captain jack sparrow.

38. “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” ―  Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild )

39. “ and i think myself what a wonderful world .” –  louis armstrong, 40. “live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” –  ralph waldo emerso.

41. “All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.” – John F. Kennedy

42. “high tides & good vibes.” – unknown, 43. “i love how it feels to unwind by the ocean.” – miranda rae mayo, 44. “one’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.” —  henry miller.

45. “An ocean breeze puts a mind at ease.” – Unknown

46. “cruising is fixing your boat in exotic locations.” – unknown.

47. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

48. “the ocean is a mighty harmonist.” – william wordsworth, 49. “if there’s a heaven for me, i’m sure it has a beach attached to it.”  – jimmy buffett.

50. “My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.“ – Henry W. Longfellow

With all the things to do on a cruise, sometimes the best part is simply enjoying the quiet moments at sea. This cruise quote reminds us to appreciate the beauty of the open ocean.

51. “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” – Frank Borman

52. “remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – roy m. goodman, 53. “dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” – christy ann martine, 54. “see the line where the sky meets the sea, it calls me. and no-one knows, how far i’ll go” – moana, 55. “why do we love the sea it is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” –  robert henri, 56. “in need of vitamin sea” –  unknown.

What is a travel quote?

A travel quote is any travel statement that motivates or inspires. Travel quotes can come from famous people, travel writers, poetry, books, movies, and anonymous sources. They often capture the essence of why we travel and can be used as motivation when planning a trip or reflecting on past travels.

Why do people use travel quotes?

People use travel quotes for many reasons. Some people find them inspiring, while others find them motivating. Some travel quotes make people laugh, and some make people think. But no matter the reason, we can all agree that travel quotes are a great way to capture the spirit of travel.

How can you use cruise and travel quotes?

You can use cruise and travel quotes in several ways. You can use them as inspiration for your next vacation, share them with friends who love to cruise and travel, or even post them on social media to inspire your followers. Always remember to cite your sources when sharing quotes.

Travel and cruise quotes inspire the joy of exploring the world, celebrating new experiences, meeting people, and discovering places. Whether planning a vacation or daydreaming about distant destinations, these quotes will ignite your excitement for the journey ahead.

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What fabulous quotes to inspire wanderlust! I was totally thinking about doing a post one day of quotes for booklovers. Just not sure what images I would use. Anyway…there are so many favorite ones here. I love that you quoted The Little Mermaid and I love the Hellen Keller quotes so much. And Louisa May Alcott! Both she and Jane Austen inspire me. I completely agree with 25 & 28. I’m not a LOTR fan but really love that Tolkien quote not just for travel but life too. And aww Moana and yay for vitamin Sea! I may go on a cruise one day all because of you. Now, do you know of any books set on a cruise or involve cruising? I know of two I’ve read so far. I may have read others but don’t remember!

Lauren – Thanks! You should read a book. Honestly, I have not read any books that are on cruise ships. Please do tell.

100 Best Cruise Quotes To Inspire You To Travel

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The best cruising travel quotes, inspirational cruise travel quotes.

Cruise quotes are the perfect way to understand your love for ships, traveling, and water.

A cruise is a sea voyage that is a great way to see the world. You travel on a large cruise ship with other passengers, docking in different ports around the world to explore, but sleeping and eating on the ship.

Cruising is the perfect way to explore the sea and enjoy the blue waters. The world of cruising is a different world altogether, for many it brings a new perspective to life.

Travel quotes are great, but when combined with a lovely cruise ship, they because cruising quotes and sayings, which are even better! Cruise quotes are perfect for any person who loves the sea. If you like general cruise travel quotes or funny cruise quotes, you have come to the right place.

These cruise travel quotes from John F Kennedy, Ray Bradbury and more, are arranged in multiple categories. These cruise sayings might even inspire you to pack your bags and hit the sea! If you like these cruising and sailing quotes, check out these boat quotes and sailing quotes to discover new quotes for the ocean.

Many famous philosophers, sailors, and travelers have described their love for the sea. Life in the waters is beautiful and these quotes will capture that feeling and inspiration! Read on to find the best inspirational cruise sayings from the ones below. You can even use these cruise quotes as social media captions for your lovely vacation photos!

1. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to boat, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.”

- Hans Christian Andersen.

2. “I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties  through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."

- Simone de Beauvoir.

3. “Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain.

4. “Appreciate the journey, and recognize your strength.”

- Susan Wiggs.

5. “You haven’t loved until you’ve sailed.”

- David Sedaris .

6. “Without patience, a sailor I would never be.”

– Lee Allred.

7. “Time and tide wait for no man.”

– St. Marher.

8. “There are three sorts of people; those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea.”

– Old Capstan Chantey attributed to Anacharsis, 6th Century BC.

9. “Never a ship sails out of a bay, but carries my heart as a stowaway.”

-Roselle Mercier Montgomery.

10. “If you never lose sight of the shore, you’re not on a voyage of discovery. You’re on a day cruise.”

11. "Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think."

-Robert Henri.

12. “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.”

– Robin Lee Graham.

13. “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”

– Zora Neale Hurston.

14. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes.

15. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

― Marcel Proust.

16. “The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.”

-Joshua Slocum.

17. “The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.”

-Isak Dinesen.

18. “It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.”

-Sir Francis Drake.

19. “Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.”

-Dennis Conner.

20. “He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.”

-Thomas Fuller.

21. "The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them."

-Amelia E. Barr.

22. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”

– William Arthur Ward.

23. “The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.”

– John Rousmaniere.

24. “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”

-Franklin D Roosevelt.

25. “In a calm sea, everyone is a pilot.”

Cruise travel is an adventure in the waters. A cruise ship moves through beautiful seas to visit different lands. Cruise lines can explore lands that might be too remote to travel by road. More and more people are now appreciating the wonders of sailing and water traveling as they witness the serenity found at sea. Can you find your favorite cruise travel quote from the ones given below?

26. "A full moon sprinkled the black ocean with diamonds, and she could imagine fairies dancing in the silver foam that laced the huge, dark waves.”

- Patricia Hagan.

27. “I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

― Mark Twain.

28. “In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.”

– Charles M Schulz.

29. “I travel because seeing photos in books and brochures wasn’t good enough for me. To be there, that was everything.”

-Wiremu Ratcliffe.

30. “There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage."

31. "You'll find us chasing the sun."

— The Wanted, 'Chasing The Sun'.

32. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.”

– Pat Conroy.

33. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves.”

– Ray Bradbury .

34. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

– Hilaire Belloc.

35. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves.”

– Pico Iyer.

36. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson.

37. “Ship’s at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”

-Zora Neale Hurston.

38. “You need not even listen, just wait… the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.”

– Franz Kafka.

39. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

40. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

– Gustave Flaubert.

41. “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.”

– Sheda Savage.

42. “Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you.”

– Erick Widman.

43. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.”

– Peter Hoeg.

44. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”

– Trenton Lee Stewart.

45. “When a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.”

- Drew Bundini Brown.

46. "‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non-percent of."

– Louis C.K.

47. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.”

-Wallace Stevens.

48. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”

49. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

-Jack Kerouac.

50. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

-Martin Buber.

The sea inspires and motivates one to explore life beyond our own land. More and more often, people travel to gain new insights on life and dwell in wonder. Here are some inspirational cruise ship quotes that will help you understand the love of the sea and the power of cruise traveling.

51. “It liberates the vandal to travel."

52. “Anchor as though you plan to stay for weeks, even if you intend to leave in an hour.”

– Tommy Moran.

53. “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.”

― Tennessee Williams.

54. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.”

– Anna Quindlen.

55. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.”

– Robert Orben.

56. “It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.”

-Vito Dumas.

57. “When the draught of your vessel exceeds the depth of the water, you are most assuredly, aground.”

– Ian Walsh.

58. “Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.”

-Joseph Conrad.

59. “The journey, not the arrival matters.”

-T.S. Elliot.

60. “The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.”

-John Rousmaniere.

61. “A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

-John A Shedd.

62. "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

-Andre Gide.

63. “We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

-Aristotle Onassis.

64. “Sea life’s beauty. Don’t get so tide down on work that you miss out on life’s beautiful waves.”

– Unknown*.

65. “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

66. “Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”

– Robert Stevenson.

67. "Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse."

– Thomas Fuller.

68. “Not all those who wander are lost.”

-J.R.R. Tolkien.

69. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

70. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

-Anaïs Nin.

71. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

– Jawaharlal Nehru.

72. “Never in my life have I experienced such beauty and fear at the same time.”

– Ellen MacArthur.

73. "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

– Benjamin Disraeli.

74. "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

-Henry David Thoreau.

75. "Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey."

76. "Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God."

– Kurt Vonnegut.

The sea is a magical place. Life slows down, the mind eases, and the smile blooms when at sea. Sailing, cruising and the mere sight of the sea is enchanting. We have the most beautiful quotes that capture the essence of the sea here. You'll love these cruising quotes.

77. “I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”

-Alaine Gerbault.

78. “The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”

-Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

79. “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”

80. "When you're on a golden sea, you don’t need no memory. Just a place to call your own, as we drift into the zone."

— Weezer, 'Island In The Sun'.

81. “The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.”

– Edmund Gibbon.

82. “When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land.”

– Dr. Samuel Johnson.

83. “A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind.”

– Webb Chiles.

84. “There is nothing, absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”

– Kenneth Grahame.

85. “Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.”

– Van Morrison.

86. “Let me sail the open sea. To breathe the warm and salty air and dream of things to be.”

– Erica Billups.

87. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson.

88. “The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.”

– Phillip Diole.

89. “The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”

– Cornelia Funke.

90. “The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.”

– Heinrich Heine.

91. "Meet me where the sky touches the sea."

– Jennifer Donnelly.

92. "We got no troubles

Life is the Bubbles

Under the Sea."

– The Little Mermaid, 'Under The Sea'.

93. “The sea does not like to be restrained.”

-Rick Riordan, 'The Lightning Thief'.

94. “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected on the deep.”

-William James.

95. “The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.”

-Vincent van Gogh, 'The Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh'.

96. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”

-Ryunosuke Satoro.

97. “There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”

-Sarah Kay.

98. “Dance with the waves, move with the sea, let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.”

-Christy Ann Martine.

99. “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.

100. “The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.”

-Robert Wylan.

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25 Sailing Quotes For Insta That'll Get You Likes While You Cruise Into The Sunset

When the weather is just right and the sun is out, the water is calling your name. There's nothing more fun and refreshing than a day spent with your besties on the boat. Whether you're a passenger on a giant cruise ship or you're floating on a small boat on the lake, you'll want to have some sailing quotes for Instagram by your side when picture-perfect moments arise.

I don't know about you, but every boat I get on, I need to take a picture standing by the railings like I'm Rose from Titanic. If you're cruising at sunset, a gorgeous pic of the colorful sky touching the water should definitely be in your near future. Not to mention, you'll want to capture lounging on the deck with selfies, group snaps with the water in the background, and Boomerangs of you riding the waves.

Summer is drifting by so quickly, so this is your last chance to seas the day — quite literally. Get in as many Instagram-worthy sailing moments as you can before the Pumpkin Spice Lattes and apple picking pics take over your feed.

When the time comes to post those snaps, you'll be prepared with these 25 sailing quotes. All you need to do is pick your favorite one to go with whatever photo you want to post, and you'll be cruising straight into the sunset with tons of likes and comments.

1. "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." — Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. "We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." — Thomas S. Monson

3. "Time to sail away."

4. "Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be." — Christopher Cross, "Sailing"

5. "Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

6. "Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed." — Patrick Stump

7. "Sail far. Sail fast." — George R.R. Martin

8. "All good things come in waves."

9. "Always a good time sailing on the lake with these people."

10. "I'm all about smooth sailing."

11. "Let your dreams set sail."

12. "It's the weekend, let's get nauti!"

13. "Let's sail always."

14. "If you're not happy, adjust the sails and change course."

15. "The line where the sky meets the sea, it calls me." — Moana

16. "Whatever floats your boat."

17. "Good vibes happen on the tides."

18. "Happiness is the wind in your sails."

19. "Beach more, worry less."

20. "Life provides the wind. You control the direction of the sails."

21. "Let's pack a bag, buy a boat, and sail away to far off coasts."

22. "Come sail away with me." — Styx, "Come Sail Away"

23. "Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere waiting for me, my lover stands on golden sands, and watches the ships that go sailin'." — Bobby Darin, "Beyond the Sea"

24. "Sail on, sail on sailor." — The Beach Boys, "Sail On Sailor"

25. "Today's knot too bad to spend sailing around."

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Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

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

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht.

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200 Boat Instagram Captions And Quotes About Boats

This collection of boat captions for Instagram along with selected quotes will really… float your boat!

Best Boat Quotes and Boating Captions

If you're looking for captions for boat pictures, or want quotes with a nautical theme, look no further!

We've put together a huge selection of the best, most inspirational and funny boat quotes from around the world, perfect for sharing on Instagram.

Feel free to use these captions and boat quotes for Instagram – but there's no pier pressure. Just engage cruise mode and enjoy!

I like big boats and I cannot lie

Life is better on the water

Do not put each foot in a different boat

Making waves

I want to sail away into forever

Never enough vitamin sea puns to last me through the summer

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You can’t buy happiness. But you can buy a boat and that’s pretty much the same thing

Forever in need of some vitamin sea

Staying hydrated by always being on the sea

Favored toys, such as a stuffed animal

I’m sorry, but this boat is knot for sail

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Good vibes happen on the tides

Having a really good time with my besties

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Born to be nautical

I'm shipfaced

Back that raft up

Find your flow, and row, row, row

Sailing with the Big Buoys

Decided to let my dreams set sail

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness clearly hasn’t been on a cruise

Home is where the anchor drops

I’m sorry for what I said while docking the boat

Always yachts of fun with this crew

Our life is like a boat that can float. Row and Go! Some Blink and Sink!!

Worry less, paddle more

Let your dreams set sail

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Feeling a bit nautical

Raising the sails

Batten down the hatches!

Ship shape and Bristol fashion

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor

All hands on deck!

Thar she blows!

Weekend plans

Life is better on the boat

Be an anchor in a world of waves

Happy as a clam

Getting salty

My happy place

Living life one cruise at a time

Seas the day

Boat hair, don’t care

A rising tide lifts all boats

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Paradise found

You call it a jet ski. I call it a boater-cycle

Keeping it reel

Friends don’t let friends cruise alone

Thanks for making sure we don’t sink

You keep me from getting lost at sea

Partying like a lob-star

A great voyage is a journey that never ends

My milkshake brings all the buoys to the yard

Cruise calories don’t count

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Buoys and their toys

Gone fishin’

Oh buoy, we’re not ready for summer to be over, yet

A boatload of fun!

Some would say that I’m an aqua holic

I love you a yacht

I’m lost at sea don’t bother me

Having yachts of fun with you

Giving in to the peer pressure

This summer will knot be too bad if it means I can spend all of my time on the water

Let’s get naughty

Where there’s a wave, there’s away

I’m walking on sunshine, and don’t it feel good Katrina & The Waves, Walking On Sunshine

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These funny boat captions will look great with your epic photos of ships and the sea!

Felt cute. Might go seas the day.

Things are going quite swell

Remember when you were my boat, and I was your sea?

Cruising stole my heart

Feelin’ pretty peachy

Whatever floats your boat

You can’t be crabby when you’re on a boat

Some grow roots, but I put down anchors far into the sea

You, me, and the sea

Until further notice, assume that summer isn’t oh-fish-ially over

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Water you waiting for?

The water you looking at?

I got 99 problems, but the beach ain't one

Not salty about this situation

Escaping all that ordinary that’s back on shore

Thermometer and other health needs

Literally sailing into the sunset

Sunsets are always better on a cruise

You’re a catch

It’s going to be a long time with no sea

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The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever

Let the sea set you free

Take time to coast

Summertime spritz on the sea

Messy buns and boat days

Sunshine on my mind

Breathe in the salty air

Hooked on that summer feeling

Ahoy, matey

Long weekends and living the boat life

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This weekend was knot too bad

Mermaid to be in the sea

Let’s just cruise and see where the waves go

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Cruising does the soul good

Shopping is fun and all, but this is my favorite kind of sail

Ocean air, salty hair

The water may be salt, but this is the sweetest life

Summer is never oh-fish-ially over

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It’s about time we all made it out on the water

Floating into the weekend with my rose close by

There’s nothing quite like the sound of your sails flapping in the wind and the waves underneath you

The ocean is everything I want to be beautiful, mysterious, wild, and free

Yachts of fun

Just a fish out of water

Let’s sail away into forever

I don’t need therapy, I just need my boat

Love you a yacht

A bad day at sea is still better than a good day at work

Best Boat Quotes

If there is no more after one more. Then you are on a boat with no oar, offshore.

– Zulqar

If the water is calm, the boat is also calm! If your thoughts are calm, your life is also calm!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

I live for taking the sea

– Nic Route

Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

– Kenichi Ohmae

Every boat needs a captain. Even when it’s empty.

– Giovannie de Sadeleer

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else’s boat or you’ll regret it the morning.

– Michael Lewis

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Boat Life Quotes

If you are the only one who’s rowing in the boat, you have no right to complain about which way you are heading!

Sailing takes me away to where I’ve always heard it could be.

– Christopher Cross

Peace is not found in a calmer storm, It’s found in a better boat.

– Travis Meadows

When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!

A boat is nothing without water and a man without his dreams!

For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.

– Alanis Morissette

A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

– John Augustus Shedd

We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.

– Christie Watson

Quotes About Boats

If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves!

Never mind who owns the boat. Pull for the shore.

– Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me. And no one knows, how far it goes.

– Moana

Shells sink, dreams float. Life’s good on our boat.

– Jimmy Buffett, Delaney Talks To Statues

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul…the best thing for a cut or abrasion was to go swimming in saltwater. Later down the road of life, I made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

– Jimmy Buffett

Baby, let’s cruise away from here

– Smokey Robinson

Perfect Boat Captions

Shells sink, dreams float, life’s good on our boat.

– Jimmy Buffet

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

– Rumi

When you get on the boat that’s saving you, don’t pull up the ladder behind you.

– Adrienne Clarkson

What’s around the river bend. Waiting just around the river bend

– Pocahontas

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Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!

If you can’t repair it, maybe it shouldn’t be on board.

– Lin and Larry Pardey

Yer advice is always as welcome as water in a boat.

– Jo Noelle

A boat without a captain cannot remain long on the surface!

Quotes to do with Boats

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.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

– Ernest Hemingway

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

I’m on a boat. Everybody look at me, ’cause I’m sailing on a boat.

– The Lonely Island, I’m On A Boat

What’s around the river bend. Waiting just around the river bend.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

– Anna Freud

I’m walking on sunshine, and don’t it feel good.

– Katrina & The Waves

Come sail away with me

– Styx

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

– Brooks Atkinson

It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.

– Vito Dumas

Always take the sea

Just as a boat in the sea may face calm as well as turbulent waters, in the same way, we all face calm as well as difficult situations in life.

– Avijeet Das

It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

– Sir Francis Drake

Smell the sea, and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.

– Van Morrison

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

– Francis Stokes

I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn’t spend on this or made do without that.

– Lin Pardey

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. and Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat and isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

– Kamand Kojouri

The boat is safer anchored at the port, but that’s not the aim of boats.

– Paulo Coelho

The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.

– Dom Degnon

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.

– Kelli Jae Baeli

I’m on a beat everybody look at me, ’cause I’m sailing on a boat

– The Lonely Island

See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me and no one knows, how far it goes

– How Far I’ll Go from Moana

Under the sea

– The Little Mermaid

I’ve always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.

– Will Ferrell

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Travelling Without a Passport

Every Travel Quote Ever

Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

“Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/

“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ― Clifton Fadiman

“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

Adventure Travel Quotes

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale 

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”― Andre Gide

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“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

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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Inspirational Boat Quotes On Life, Love, Sailing

These boat quotes will inspire you. A boat is a small vessel for traveling over water, propelled by oars, sails, or an engine.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging boat quotes, boat sayings, and boat proverbs.

Best Boat Quotes

• “A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.” ~ Paulo Coelho
• “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
• “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.” ~ Christie Watson

• “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” ~ Brooks Atkinson
• “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” ~ William Arthur Ward
• “Did you know you can’t steer a boat that isn’t moving? Just like a life.” ~ Paul Lutus
• “Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, whatever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard.” ~ Jentezen Franklin

“Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” ~ Alice Munro

• “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
• “Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.” ~ Zig Ziglar
• “Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.” ~ William Shakespeare
• “Time is a river, and books are boats.” ~ Dan Brown

“We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.” ~ Anna Freud

• “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” ~ Kenneth Grahame
• “At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” ~ Robin Lee Graham
• “O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.” ~ John F. Kennedy
• “The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.” ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The cure for anything is saltwater: sweat, tears or the sea.” ~ Isak Dinesen

• “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
• “Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness” ~ Khalil Gibran , Boat quotes about life
• “The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.” ~ John Rousmaniere
• “As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.” ~ Laura Dekker

“Little boats should keep near shore” ~ Benjamin Franklin

• “And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” ~ Edward Gibbon
• “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he’ll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.” ~ Alex Blackwell
• “It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” ~ Francis Drake
• “Now then, Pooh,” said Christopher Robin, “where’s your boat?” “I ought to say,” explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, “that it isn’t just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it’s a Boat, and sometimes it’s more of an Accident. It all depends.” “Depends on what?” “On whether I’m on the top of it or underneath it.” ~ A. A. Milne

“It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.” ~ Vito Dumas

• “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
• “Does this boat go to Europe, France?” ~ Anita Loos
• “There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of ’em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular, and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you’d much better not.” ~ Kenneth Grahame
• “I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” ~ John Masefield

“The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.” ~ Joshua Slocum

• “Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.” ~ John Masefield
• “The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
• “A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny rowboat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.” ~ David Reuben
• “Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.” ~ Jerome K. Jerome

“The sea hates a coward.” ~ Eugene O’Neill

• “Nothing gives me as much pleasure as traveling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.” ~ Alan Rickman , Boat quotes about love
• “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” ~ Peter Benchley
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• “If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” ~ Dale Carnegie

• “For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind and the boat made three.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
• “We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.” ~ Bernard Baruch
• “The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.” ~ Guy Lafleur
• “When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.” ~ Whoopi Goldberg

“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” ~ Joseph Conrad

• “If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.” ~ Sebastian Vettel
• “The sea finds out everything you did wrong.” ~ Francis Stokes
• “Sailors, with their built-in sense of order, service, and discipline, should really be running the world.” ~ Nicholas Monsarrat
• “To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.” ~ Edgar Lee Masters

“I’m attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.” ~ James D’arcy

• “Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.” ~ Herman Melville , Sailing boat quotes
• “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
• “A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s.” ~ Bernard Moitessier
• “Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.” ~ Felicity Kendal

“Out of sight of land, the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.” ~ Charles Davis

• “If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that’s one of the things God made boats for to wait in.” ~ Tristan Jones
• “Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.” ~ Francis Chichester

“All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.” ~ John Masefield

• “There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.” ~ Alan Villiers
• “It’s easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy’s in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that’s an easier role.” ~ Kyra Sedgwick

A boat is a small vehicle for traveling on water.

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A look at the most expensive superyachts at the Palm Beach yacht show and their insane features, from basketball courts on deck to ice baths and saunas

• The Palm Beach International Boat Show kicks off later this week.
• Eight megayachts are expected to be on display for would-be buyers and charter customers.
• These are the show's biggest yachts — and how many millions of dollars they are going for.

The Palm Beach International Boat Show — the yacht world's flashiest event stateside — is returning this year with over 800 boats for both deep-pocked potential owners and window shoppers to peruse.

While it's impossible to know what exactly will be on display until the show begins on Thursday, it's expected that eight megayachts — generally defined as ships over 60 meters long — will be docked at the show and at nearby marinas like the Rybovich Marina in the ritzy Florida town.

Some of these are for sale at eye-popping prices, but others are available to if in case you fancy living like a billionaire for a week or two this summer (and if you have six figures to spare on a vacation).

These are the eight biggest yachts that will be at the Palm Beach International Boat Show and nearby marinas, in size order.

Nero: 90.1 meters

Price: From $497,000 a week (charter)

Standout features: Pizza ovens, beauty salon, massage room, resistance pool

Reportedly owned by Irish billionaire Denis O'Brien, Nero is modeled after J.P. Morgan's 1930s ship , and was built in 2007 and updated in 2021.

She now boasts a gym on her sundeck with multiple cardio machines and a beauty salon, and has an on-board beautician for manicure, pedicure, hair, and massage needs. There's also an upgraded movie theater, two new pizza ovens, and both a pool and a jacuzzi.

For those who want to go overboard, she has more than a dozen toys, including a waterslide, Jet Ski, and flyboard.

Victorious: 85 meters

Price: From $876,600 a week in the summer and $950,000 a week in the winter

Standout features: Hammam (Turkish bath), wine cellar, wood-burning fireplace, children's playroom

Victorious brings a party vibe to the yacht show. With a beach club on board, a wine cellar, a cigar clubroom , multiple bars, and a lounge with a piano, the vessel is made for entertaining. Plus, there's a playroom and movie theater to entertain the kids.

For tamer charter clients, Victorious has a suite of wellness features such as a gym, massage room, beauty salon and hammam, or Turkish bath — perhaps a custom request of her owner, Turkish businessman Vural Ak.

She also boasts a treasure trove of water toys, including Jet Skis, jetsurfs, inflatable kayaks, and scuba equipment.

Casino Royale: 72 meters

Special Features: Infinity pool, helipad, private jacuzzi

Purchased and refitted by car dealer magnate John Staluppi last year, Casino Royale is the latest of his James Bond-inspired yachts (he's also owned an Octopussy and a Skyfall, among others).

Casino Royale has a helipad that turns into a dancefloor, an infinity pool, and a wellness center with a gym and sauna. The owner's cabin has its own deck, which features a private bar and jacuzzi.

However, the boat's price isn't listed, and while she's not necessarily officially for sale, that might change depending on who's prepared to buy, Mr. Bond.

Talisman C: 70.6 meters

Price: $60 million (or from $567,000 a week to charter)

Special features: Massage and beauty room, private library

Likely the largest yacht for sale (not just charter) at the show, the Talisman C is a 2011 six-bedroom boat. The owner's cabin comes with an en suite bathroom, dressing room, private library, and crystal chandeliers.

Amenities include a gym, a beauty room, oversized jacuzzi, and a fully equipped bar. Her crew of 19 includes a trained masseuse, and the toy room comes equipped with a wakeboard, eFoil , and WaveRunners.

Joy: 70 meters

Price: From $650,000 a week

Special features: Disco club, basketball court, onboard fitness instructor

Superyacht Joy testifies to the fact that owners want as many on-board experiences as they can get.

There's an expansive suite of fitness features, including a basketball court (don't shoot that hoop too hard!), a personal trainer on staff, boxing equipment, and a handful of machines. For post-workout winddowns, there's a spa with a steam room and onboard masseuse. And for entertainment, there's both an outdoor and indoor cinema, and a disco club.

Triumph: 65.4 meters

Price: From $707,600 a week in the summer and $650,000 a week in the winter

Special features: Sauna, helipad, banana boat

This 2021 superyacht is named after Triumph motorcycles — a reported favorite of her rumored owner, British businessman Chris Dawson — and even has one on display as an art piece in the upper deck's lounge. The primary suite is 1,400 square feet and has its own study , and there's a sauna, an indoor-outdoor gym, a helipad, and a massage room spread among her six decks.

She boasts an "armada of water toys," including two kinds of Jet Skis, electric water bikes, and a banana boat.

Seanna: 64.5 meters

Price: $54,000,000 (or from $462,000 a week to charter)

Special features: marble foyer, movie room, sundeck pool

The recently refurbished Seanna is available for sale and charter.

Her indoor-outdoor gym is on sea level so that passengers can take a dip after a session with the onboard personal trainer. There's also a sundeck pool, a helipad, a two-room massage facility, and, for the more cerebral guests, a library with an electric fireplace.

There are a number of toys on board, including a popular water trampoline and two WaveRunners.

Come Together: 60 meters

Price: $65,000,000

Special Features: DJ and videographer on board, ice bath, sauna

Next-to-new yacht Come Together is looking for a new owner after doing charters during the 2023 season.

The Beatles' influence is evident beyond the yacht's name, with guitars dotting the sky lounge and a crewmember who doubles as a DJ. There's also an outdoor cinema and bar for entertainment and an ice bath and sauna for the day after the party. The owner's suite has a private study and lounge, and each guest cabin has its own ensuite.

The sale includes a number of toys, like Jet Skis, kayaks, and Seabobs.

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The owner of a $3.4 million Lamborghini yacht screamed 'I will kill you' and threw $100 bills into the water when told he couldn't use a private dock

• The owner of a Lamborghini yacht threatened a private dock employee, per CBS8.
• The employee said Ajay Thakore mooned and threw cash at him after being told he couldn't use the dock.
• Thakore, the CEO of Doctor Multimedia, issued an apology through his public relations team.

The owner of a $3.4 million Lamborghini yacht threatened a private dock employee after being told he couldn't be there, the San Diego-based broadcaster CBS8 reported on March 11.

Joseph Holt, a 21-year-old employee at Marriot Marina in San Diego, told CBS8 that he spotted the yacht sailing into the private dock. The owner, whom CBS8 identified as Ajay Thakore, tried to pick another person up at the dock, Holt said.

"I told him respectfully that he couldn't be there, and I honestly was hoping to have a conversation with him about his cool boat," Holt told CBS8.

In a YouTube video posted by @SM-wc9eq on March 10, a dark blue Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63 is seen sailing out of a dock. A man in a gray T-shirt, a pair of jeans, and a cap was shown standing on the yacht. The man appeared to be Thakore, per CBS8.

Thakore was shown shouting at Holt. "I will kill you, you know I will kill you!" he can be heard saying multiple times in the video

Thakore was later shown pounding his fist on his palm and pointing his thumb down before telling Holt: "To your face!" Holt was shown responding by pointing his middle finger at Thakore.

"I really was trying to restrain myself from getting fired from my job or stepping out of line. The only thing I did was give him the bird," Holt told CBS8.

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Holt said Thakore then took $100 bills from his wallet and threw them at him. He added that Thakore mooned him. This exchange was not shown in the video.

"He was saying I'm nobody, I'm nothing, I work a silly job. He said that he knows people, he has connections, he can change my life and ruin it," Holt said. Holt did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

The San Diego Harbor Police arrived at the marina 10 minutes after Thakore's yacht exited the dock, per CBS8.

The Harbor Police told Business Insider that Holt decided to press charges against Thakore and that they are investigating the incident.

According to Thakore's LinkedIn page , he's the CEO of Doctor Multimedia. The company's website shows that it's a healthcare marketing firm based in San Diego. Thakore appears to go by the name Ace Rogers on Instagram and TikTok, where he's noted as being a professional gambler.

Thakore, through his public relations team, told CBS8 in a statement that his altercation with Holt was "regrettable."

"What started as a minor misunderstanding escalated into an argument, and I apologize for my actions and to those who witnessed the unfortunate exchange," the statement said. Thakore did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.

Thakore isn't the only CEO who's been called out for threatening another person. In November 2021, an Activision spokesperson told BI that its ex-CEO Bobby Kotick had previously apologized for telling his assistant he would have her killed. The spokesperson added that Kotick's threat was "obviously hyperbolic and inappropriate" and that "he deeply regrets the exaggeration and tone."

In June 2020, Lisa Alexander, the CEO of LaFace Skincare, a cosmetics company, apologized in a statement to the media after she had threatened to call the police on her neighbor for writing "Black Lives Matter" on his property. Alexander said in the apology that she was "disrespectful" and "should have minded my own business."

March 21, 2024: This story has been updated with Harbor Police's comments.

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