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

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

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  2. A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  3. A ship that sails without a compass will get lost at sea. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. Wind is the sacred music of the leaves; wherever and whenever the wind blows, over there leaves start their holy dancing frantically! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  5. Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. – Erin Morgenstern
  6. The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about. – Michael Meade
  7. Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  8. When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  9. If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. – Seneca
  10. Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly’s mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom. – George RR Martin
  11. When turbulence hits your sails remind yourself it is an opportunity to get to the shore quicker. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  12. To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours. – Denise Domning
  13. Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in. – Kester Brewin
  14. Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does. – Ogwo David Emenike
  15. Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation]. – Dada Bhagwan
  16. Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream. – Ryan Lilly
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  18. When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves. – Karen Maezen Miller
  19. The Wind that Blows, the Water that Flows, the Sun that Glows, are all proof that a Power exists. Believe and Experience the Universal Power. – RVM
  20. A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out. – Anthony Liccione
  21. Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult. – Antoine de SaintExupry
  22. Let us be the wind of love that touches every heart and blows away all of the misery and sadness. – Debasish Mridha
  23. Every bonsaidreams of being a tall tree – until the wind blows – Don Barnard
  24. Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. – Bodie Thoene
  25. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows. – Ellen Raskin
  26. You are not my sunshine. Sorry. You’re more like a gust of arctic wind that bursts in and blows out all the candles when the door cracks open. – Richelle E Goodrich
  27. Like the rudder or anchor on a ship, your habits can guide you in the direction of your dreams or hold you back and keep you from achieving them. – Mensah Oteh
  28. For a man he get his own ship and his own strong wind, but he cannot stop missing all the passing breezes that never come again. – Tahar Mtibaa
  29. The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  30. When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  31. A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  32. One who wishes to cross the ocean first builds a ship. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  33. A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  34. If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream. – Shannon L Alder
  35. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction! – Israelmore Ayivor
  36. It’s better to make baby steps in the right direction than big steps in the wrong direction! – Lily Amis
  37. When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward! – Dada Bhagwan
  38. Do not confuse location with direction. Location is where you are, direction is where you are going. – Laura Busche
  39. you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  40. Tell me the direction of your thoughts and I will tell you the direction of your life! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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