Ship Tow

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Nodding the head does not row the boat. - Unknown

Tell the men to fire faster and not give up the ship. - Captain James Lawrence

No goal is unattainable with individual determination. - Unknown

Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it. - Will Rogers

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Talent is no match for hard work, determination, and perseverance. - Unknown

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - John Shedd

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

An entire ocean can't sink a ship unless it allows the water inside. - Donna Smith

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung. - Colin Farrell

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. - Unknown

Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God. - Francis de Sales

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

The common traits among all successful people are desire, determination and confidence. - Joe Segal

No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm. - Charles F. Ketterling

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

Those who have one foot in the canoe and one foot in the boat are going to fall into the river. - Tuscarora Proverb

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, "Your end of the boat is sinking." - Hugh Downs

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination. - George Jackson

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. - Bhagavad Gita

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Never marvel at the strength of a man's words, but rather by the determination and truthfulness of his actions. - Unknown

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork. - Mark Twain

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port. - Zig Ziglar

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins