Quotes on Helm

Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets. _x000D_ _x000D_ Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King. _x000D_ _x000D_ Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship. _x000D_ _x000D_ Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business. _x000D_ _x000D_ Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But I see Him! - through the storm, strengthening the tackling, handling the yards, spreading the sails - yes more, commanding the very winds! Should I not be a coward if I abandoned my post? Let Him govern, let Him carry us forward, let Him hasten or delay; we will fear nothing!

Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.