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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

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