A rising tide lifts all boats.
Posted by nabil medawar in Famous Quotes and Sayings, Great One-line Quotes., Inspirational Quotes, Miscellaneous Quotes, Words of wisdom, tags: tide, tides
- At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish.~ Thai Proverb
- Give wind and tide a chance to change.~ Richard E. Byrd
- Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tide.~ Irish Proverb
- Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time; but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all.~ Mary Adams
- Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.~ Alice Meynell
- Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement — and we will make the goal.~ Jerome P. Fleishman
- Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.~ Fay Weldon
- Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving.~ Harold Mayfield
- The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.~ William Blake
- There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current, the clouds folding and unfolding, beyond the horizon when it serves, or lose our ventures.~ William Shakespeare
- Time and tide wait for no men.~ English Proverb
- Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow…. When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under. But if I let go and float, I am borne aloft.~ Marie Stilkind
- Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.~ David Hare
- When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth.~ Persian Proverb
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