226+ Best Quotes For Your Boating Tours Business [2024]

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Looking for inspirational quotes for your boating tours business?

Whether you’re looking for motivation, a witty instagram caption, or something to win over your team and customers, we have you covered.

We put together a list of 226+ best quotes for your boating tours business [2024].

Here they are:

Inspirational Quotes

“It’s out there at sea that you are really yourself.”– Vito Dumas
“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”– Unknown
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves.”– Pico Iyer
"Wherever they drive the boat. To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, but life without meaning is the torture of restlessness and vague desire -- it is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid" -.Edgar
“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.”– Charles M. Schulz
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Never mind the company; only keep afloat. You can't be too particular who's mannin' of the boat". -Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
"We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat". -Bernard Baruch
"The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it". -Bill Copeland
"For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage". -Alanis Morissette
"This boat that we just built is just fine and don't try to tell us it's not the sides and the back are divine it's the bottom I guess we forgot"-Shel Silverstein
"A boat at midnight sent alone to drift upon the moonless sea, a lute, whose leading chord is gone, a wounded bird, that hath but one imperfect wing to soar upon, are like what I am, without thee". -Thomas Moore
“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.”— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat". -Jacques Yves Cousteau
“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are”– Edith Wharton
"Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat unto the nearest town?". -Emily Dickinson
"A boat came in; the cliff was baked; the noisy boat-chain fell and clanked on the sand-an iron rattle-snake, a rattling rust among the plankton". -Boris Pasternak
"When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you". -Adrienne Clarkson
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” —Katharine Hepburn
“In losing complete awareness of time, I felt pure freedom. I was becoming one with the sea.” —Michelle Segrest
"Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made, for somewhere deep in their oaken hearts the soul of a song is laid." —Robert N. Rose
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber
"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks". -Warren Buffett
"Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on". -Victor Hugo
"The love boat has crashed against the everyday". -Vladimir Mayakovsky
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of looking at things.”– Henry Miller
“Sailing takes me away to where I’ve always heard it could be. Just a dream and the wind to carry me, and soon I will be free.”– Christopher Cross
“The eye has to travel.”– Deena Vreeland
"When a big ship and a small boat come together, you will see that the latter is happier than the former because it has much less problems"! -Mehmet Murat ildan
“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”-Trenton Lee Stewart
“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand
”We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” -Aristotle Onassis
“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”—Andre Agassi
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” — Shonda Rhimes
“The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.”– Isak Dinesen
“The rust can destroy even the biggest boat standing idle on the shore for too long. In the same way, stagnancy can destroy the amazing talent that you possess.”
“As soon as we entered the Bay of Biscay, we knew it. Things started getting uncomfortable immediately.” —Michelle Segrest
“Even a small hole of negativity can bring down a big beautiful boat of hope, faith, and dreams.”
“A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Grace Hopper
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."—Helen Keller
“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” —Jamie Lyn Beatty
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”– Zora Neale Hurston
“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury
"Sailors, with their built-in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world." —Nicholas Monsarrat
"A sailing vessel is alive in a way that no ship with mechanical power ever be." —Aubrey de Selincourt
“I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”—Cheryl Strayed
"A boat without captain cannot remain long on the surface!" -Mehmet Murat ildan
"The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself". -John Rousmaniere
“Our whale continued to circle us and was very curious. At one point he swam right next to Seefalke’s port side, turned onto his side and looked right at us.” —Michelle Segrest
"A boat approach'd the wall, and eager to the welcome aid they crowd for safety all". -Robert Southey
"That's what a ship is, you know—it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs. But what a ship is, really is, is freedom." —Captain Jack Sparrow, “Pirates of the Caribbean”
“The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen
“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” —Stephen R. Covey
“If it wasn’t for seasickness, all the world would be sailors.”– Charles Darwin
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.”– Hellen Keller
"Never mind who owns the boat. Pull for the shore". -Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Professional Quotes

“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”– Sir Richard Burton
“Learning to sail is a lifetime commitment and not just a one-course seminar.” —Michelle Segrest
"We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean". -Anna Freud
“All those hours of being sick and uncomfortable were only a distant memory now and totally worth it for 40 minutes of a glorious encounter with this gentle giant of the sea.” —Michelle Segrest
"A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it". -Francois Truffaut
"Confronting a storm is like fighting God. All the powers in the universe seem to be against you and, in an extraordinary way, your irrelevance is at the same time both humbling and exalting." ―Francis LeGrande
“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin
"Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life". -Werner Herzog
“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.” —Bob Dylan
"It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.” —Ernest K. Gann
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”– Andre Gide
"If you are a boat that wants to sail in windy weather, you must be more stubborn than the waves"! -Mehmet Murat ildan
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“We are tied to the ocean, and when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came.”– John F. Kennedy
“There are ships much bigger and heavier than ours sitting at the bottom of The Bay of Biscay. Don’t think for a minute that wasn’t on my mind.” —Michelle Segrest
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” —Lewis Carroll
“May you live all the days of your life.”– Jonathan Swift
"Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore". -Benjamin Franklin
“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.”– Wallace Stevens
"The sea finds out everything you did wrong." ―Francis Stokes
"Sometimes you need to tether your boats to stop them from following your dreams". -Anthony T. Hincks
“When you live on a sailboat, you learn to live on at least a 20-degree tilt. You sleep on a tilt. You cook on a tilt. You pee on a tilt. You are just sideways—all the time.” —Michelle Segrest
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”– Robert Louis Stevenson
"I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea." —Alaine Gerbault, French Aviator
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”– Mary Ann Radmacher
“Sometimes when you are sailing you have periods of heavy waves with breaks of calm smooth waters. We had zero breaks from the heavy waves. They just kept coming.” —Michelle Segrest
"The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore". -Dale Carnegie
“At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.” – Robin Lee Graham
"If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference". -Sebastian Vettel
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai
"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats". -Ernest Hemingway
“It doesn’t matter how old is your boat, if sinking you have to leave it. And it doesn’t matter how old is your addiction, if harmful, you have to quit it.”
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Cousteau
If you boat a lot, you're known as a boating enthusiast. I like to boat, but I just don't want to ever be referred to as a boating enthusiast. I hope they call me a guy who likes to boat". -Mitch Hedberg
“The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.”– Amelia A. Barr
“Trust and unity are the only powerful tools that can help a crew to take the boat out from the rough sea.”
"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea". -Joseph Conrad
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.”– Michael Palin
“The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.”—Jim Rohn
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”– Hilaire Belloc
"A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him". -Ramakrishna
“A fisherman will starve without a boat. Similarly, an intelligent man perishes without a definite life goal.”
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float. To roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.”– Hans Christian Anderson
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”Gustave Flaubert
“If you want to see a beautiful view, you have to work, and take the boat farther in the sea. Similarly, if you want to achieve something big in life, you have to work hard and do things, which very few people are willing to do.”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”– Hellen Keller
“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.” -Alaine Gerbault
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.” – Zora Neale Hurston
“Happiness is living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”– Leo Tolstoy
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
“The journey, not the arrival matters.”– T.S. Eliot
“The Baltic Sea is a bitch! But I love her.” —Michelle Segrest
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” – Robert Henri
"Running a boat isn't that hard. Just takes doing. Most or all women I ever knew were discouraged from running boats, but it was too late with me". -Diane Wilson
“There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.” – Mark Twain

Life Quotes

Boat is nothing without water and man without his dreams!Mehmet Murat ildan
"Reaction a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on". -Victor Hugo
“How inappropriate it is to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Sea.” —Arthur C. Clarke
“Fear to sink or fail can never let the boat of success achieve its destination”
"Now—bring me that horizon.” —Captain Jack Sparrow, The last line from “Pirates of the Caribbean”
“No matter how deep is an ocean, a boat always floats at the top. Similarly, no matter how big is the problem, positive thinking always keeps you at the top.”
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.”– Kristen Butler
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”– Mark Twain
"The sea's rising, the boat must be lightened". -Alfred Noyes
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”– Susan Sontag
“Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.”– Gayland Anderson
“You haven’t lived until you’ve sailed.”– David Sedaris
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart
“The good seaman weathers the storm he cannot avoid and avoids the storm he cannot weather.” —Unknown.
“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.” —Bob Marley
“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” —Diane von Furstenberg
“I am not afraid. I was born to do this.” —Joan of Arc
“Some people get lost for so long, that they forgot what it was like to be themselves. Find yourself again.” -Anonymous
“I noticed all the many bruises and cuts and scrapes that seem to have tattooed my limbs—battle scars of a true sailor that are telling the story of my journey.” —Michelle Segrest
"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea." ―Joseph Conrad
“Set your goals high and don’t stop till you get there.”—Bo Jackson
“If one doesn’t know to which port one is sailing, no port is favorable.”– Lucius Annaneus Seneca
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now". -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas". -Henry Ward Beecher
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.”– John Steinbeck
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat". -Jean-Paul Sartre
“All the hard work done in oaring will go in vain, if you propel in the wrong direction. In the same way, hard work is only fruitful if you have a goal which is practical and viable.”
“The wave of obstacles has no power to stop the boat of COURAGE”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
"And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure." —Bob Bitchin
"The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean". -Yoko Ono
"There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in". -Mark Twain
“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz
“A bad day sailing is 100 times better than a good day at work.” —Anonymous
“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.” —Henry Ford
“No matter how strong and beautiful is a boat, it can’t move forward without an oar. Likewise, the greatest ideas are worthless without the action.”
“This is a grand experience, and I’m grateful every day for the opportunity to challenge myself. But I can’t pretend it’s all sailing and sunshine all the time.” —Michelle Segrest
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”– Helen Keller
“Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.”– Jamie Lyn Beatty
"The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house". -Barbara Corcoran
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.”—Captain Jack Sparrow, “Pirates of the Caribbean”
“Water below the boat will support and help it move forward, and water inside the boat will sink it inside the ocean. Likewise, your thought process decides whether you become optimistic or pessimistic in life.”
“The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.”– Joshua Slocum
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury
“The boat sinks when an angler loads out of greed and not need.”
"A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In truth it pictures not my destination but my life". -Edgar Lee Masters
“There is no better tool or equipment you can have on board than a well-trained crew.” —Larry Pardey
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out and meet it." —Jonathan Winters
“The shore can’t determine the capabilities of a boat, because a sea has the only right to test it. And you will know your true strength only when you enter the true battlefield.”
“No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.”– Felix Riesenberg
“I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.” —William Ernest Henley
“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” –Ibn Battuta
“Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.” – Brooks Atkinson
"A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise." -Bill Cosby

Positive Quotes

“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
”Adventure is worthwhile” -Aesop
"The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats". -Paulo Coelho
“The most challenging times bring us the most empowering lessons.”—Karen Salmansohn
"If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late." —Pete Goss
“If you nurse every wound you get on a sailboat, you will spend all your time nursing wounds. It’s best to just blurt a four-letter word and keep going.” —Michelle Segrest
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.” – André Gide
“Take every chance in life, because some things only happen once.”– Karen Gibbs
“It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.”— Sir Francis Drake
"We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty". -G. K. Chesterton
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
“I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”– Louise May Alcott
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”– Anita Desai
“The big boats get the glory, but small boats make the sailor.”—From the movie “Wind”
“Perhaps you have experienced this personal nirvana that makes you continue to want and need the next special experience. I believe this is what makes your passion a part of your heart and soul and not just a hobby.”—Michelle Segrest
“You are just like a boat anchored at the shore of an ocean full of opportunity. So just sail, who knows, you might find an opportunity that will completely change your life.”
"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat". -Felicity Kendal
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.” --Robert Henri
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not". -James Taylor
“It’s in moments like these that you forget how soothing the sea can be, and you remember its power and force.” —Michelle Segrest
“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”—Bethany Hamilton
"A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it". -Barry S Strauss
“Make time for travel. The memories will last a lifetime.”– Ilana Schattauer
“We can battle the sea, or we can embrace it. Sometimes she will be sweet and sometimes mean as a snake. We must embrace the experience and trust we will get through it.”—Michelle Segrest
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”-Marcel Proust
"A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind. Live passionately, even if it kills you, because something is going to kill you anyway." ―Webb Chiles
"To desire nothing beyond what you have is surely happiness. Aboard a boat, it is frequently possible to achieve just that. That is why sailing is a way of life, one of the finest of lives." ―Carleton Mitchell
"It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage". -"George William Curtis
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”– Dalai Lama
"There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily" -.P. J. O'Rourke
“If you can’t repair it, maybe it shouldn’t be on board.” —Lin and Larry Pardey
"Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else". -Jeff Bridges
"A boat can't have two captains". -Akira Mori
“I travel because seeing photos in books and brochures wasn’t good enough for me. To be there, that was everything.”– Wiremu Ratcliffe
"Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." —Brooks Atkinson
“You can. You should. And if you are brave enough to start, you will.” —Stephen King
"There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford"! -Kabir
"When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!". -Mehmet Murat ildan
"Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for". -Zig Ziglar
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” —Ernest Hemingway
“If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.”—Tony Robbins
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”—Jim Rohn
“A rampant wave can either sink a boat or harden the skills of the sailer. Likewise, a big problem in life can either throw you on the ground or can give you an opportunity to learn and improve.”
“With age, comes wisdom, with travel comes understanding.”– Sandra Lake
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway
“It isn’t that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.” – Sir Francis Drake
“There’s a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It’s exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don’t cheat yourselves out of this promise.” —Nancy Reagan
“On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.” —Rumi
“Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you.”– Anonymous
“When your life is moving too fast and you find yourself in chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset.” —Christy Ann Martine
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”– Hillaire Belloc
“The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.” – Joshua Slocum
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built.”– John A. Shedd
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect." ―Carl Sandburg
"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be Pirates" —Mark Twain

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