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.
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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.
