57 Wonderful Boat Quotes for Wanderlust

67 Wonderful Boat and Sailing Quotes for Wanderlust

Is it the sailing season yet? Regardless, we have the best boat quotes to go with your awesome sailing photos! 

Some of those are simply beautiful, others might be more cheesy? Well, I certainly do not believe those are cheesy, but beautiful and great boat quotes. They could even go great on a TShirt as print or as a photo print in your living room.

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Funny Boat Quotes

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

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

I live for taking the sea-nic route.

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

I like big boats and I cannot lie.

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

Whatever floats your boat.

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

Having yachts of fun, HBU?

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

– Jimmy Buffet

Keepin’ it reel.

A sailboat that sails backward can never see the sunrise.

– Bill Cosby

A sailboat that sails backward can never see the sunrise.

Good vibes on the high and low tides.

We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.

– Christie Watson  

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

– Van Morrison

Sunshine on my mind.

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

– Alanis Morissette

 Worry less, paddle more.

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

– Mehmet Murat ildan

I like big buoys and I cannot lie.

The boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

The boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!

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

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

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

Take time to coast.

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

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

– Will Ferrell

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

– Ernest Hemingway

Simple Inspirational Boat Quotes

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

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

– Carl Hiaasen

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

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.

A rising tide doesn’t raise people who don’t have a boat. We have to build the boat for them. We have to give them the basic infrastructure to rise with the tide.

– Rahul Gandhi

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

– Werner Herzog

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

– Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

– Robert Fulghum

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

– Laura Dekker

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

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

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you’re on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

– Jeff Bridges

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

– John Rousmaniere

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

– Ramakrishna

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

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

– Mark Twain

This boat that we just built is just fine – And don’t try to tell us it’s not. The sides and the back are divine – It’s the bottom I guess we forgot

― Shel Silverstein, 

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

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

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

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

― John Augustus Shedd

A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. ― John Augustus Shedd

To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift.

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

― Warren Buffet

There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.

― Kenneth Grahame

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

― Sebastian Junger

Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don’t like them. Can’t sell kids.

― Lin Pardey

If I don’t see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.

― Michael Bassey Johnson

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

― Matshona Dhliwayo

Your mind is a ship; it can sail across the universe as long as you don’t allow negative thoughts to sink it.

― Matshona Dhliwayo

You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails.

― Matshona Dhliwayo

You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

There will always be rough days and easy ones. Like a ship, we must sail through both.

― Nabil N. Jamal

Lake boating quotes

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.

— John Lubbock

A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

– Henry David Thoreau

The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence. That will be useful.

― Virginia Woolf

There’s only one way to tackle life, enjoy a day at the beach, and jump into a Great Lake: Headfirst!

― Viola Shipman

When a lake’s doubt is shown as ripples, sunshine rays are flown to the hills.

– Ankush Agarwal

If the lake sees the ocean, it will want big waves! If the ocean sees the lake, it will want calm days that lasts for years!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Life is better at the lake.

A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some.

– Dan Egan

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

Stay close to the serenity of a lake to meet your own peace of mind.

– Munia Khan

So lovely was the loneliness of a wild lake.

– Edgar Allan Poe

When you have swam in the sea a lake will no longer do; everyone else has been a pond but the ocean was always you.

– Tyler Knott Gregson

The water. The lake. It flows through our veins, and there’s nothing we can do about it… It’s like venom.

– Karen Katchur

Just find your way, like a river settling into its bed, and the sigh of the wind over a lake, light but restful… content with the joy in the arc of an arm throwing a ball for a dog to fetch

– Jay Woodman

Even a pebble cast in the middle of a lake creates ripples that eventually reach the shore.

– Jeffrey G. Duarte

Skip a stone. Take a hike. Sit a spell. Listen. Daydream. Just breathe. This is lake living.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my sense put in order.

– John Burroughs

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

– Theodore Roosevelt

The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.

– Alan S. Kesselheim

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

– Nancy Wynne Newhall

Talk not of the river or lake, To those who have looked on the sea.

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

– Laura Dekker

Life without a defined purpose is similar to a boat without a crew in the middle of the ocean.

– Debasish Mridha

A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In truth it pictures not my destination but my life.

– Edgar Lee Masters

When a boat comes upon a winding river, slow down and the river becomes straight.

– Nelson Mandela

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

– P. J. O’Rourke

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

– Yoko Ono

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

– Goran Ivanisevic

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

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Reaction a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

– Victor Hugo

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.

– Sebastian Vettel

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

– Kenneth Grahame

If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

– E.B. White

Let God push your boat out into the deep waters, toward the unfathomable depths of the interior life.

– Diary of Saint Faustina

Boats don’t sink because of the water on the outside, boats sink if water gets inside. Don’t let negative get inside of you, and sink your goals.

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He is not the type of guy who’s just going to fall off a boat, he’s the type of guy who watches to make sure no one else does.

– Keith Davis

He is not the type of guy who’s just going to fall off a boat, he’s the type of guy who watches to make sure no one else does.

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