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Don't want to slump over the oars. -- James Genn
Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream. -- Esther Hicks
The oars game me power but also taught me humility. -- Barry S. Strauss
Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars. -- Edvard Munch
Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time. -- Andrew Marvell
Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking. -- Lee Iacocca
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. -- Robert Breault
When the winds of life don't hit your sails, you grab the oars of life and you start pushing. -- Greg Plitt
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. -- Antonio Machado
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. -- Richard Halliburton
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. -- William Shakespeare
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. -- Kris Kristofferson
One win is not enough to rest on our oars especially where there is room and opportunity for other wins and successes. -- Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ. -- Charles Spurgeon
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. -- Oliver Goldsmith
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. -- William Cowper
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
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboatcomes slowly out and then goes back is truly worthall the years of sorrow that are to come. -- Jack Gilbert
Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you. -- Esther Hicks
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur; Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.] -- Ovid
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide. -- Lewis Carroll
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals. -- John F. Kennedy
I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row. -- Xeno Muller

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