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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. -- Thomas Carlyle
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. -- Eileen Caddy
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. -- Edvard Munch
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. -- Owen Feltham
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate. -- Nguyen Cao Ky
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe. -- Edward Grey
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. -- Freya Stark
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it. -- Charlie Pierce
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. -- Orville Wright
As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder. -- Eric Hill
I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. -- Clayton Christensen
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life. -- Yukito Kishiro
How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder? -- Christopher Fry
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder. -- B. C. Forbes
Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder. -- Khalil Gibran
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never fly anything that doesn't have the paint worn off the rudder Pedals. -- Bill Harry
The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us. -- Catherine of Siena
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul. -- Sholom Aleichem
To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life. -- Rick Warren
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment -- Owen Feltham
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down. -- Antonio Machado
Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction. -- Jack White
The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course. -- Larry Osborne
Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go. -- Joel Ross
We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S. -- Diana L. Eck
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder. -- John Keats
Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course. -- Asa Gray
The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made. -- Stephen Coonts
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder. -- Mardy Grothe
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. -- John Dryden
Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways Freed from a love more like murder I should be singing but in liberation Feel like a ship with no rudder. -- Andy Partridge
Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life. -- Richard G. Scott
Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship. -- Beryl Markham
A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed. -- Thomas S. Monson

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