The wind is a great moving force that brings change and sets us on a new course. Because of this, I have found some of the most iconic quotes about the wind so you too can feel its wonder! π¨
Below, you will a wide range of moving, inspiring, motivational, insightful, and revealing quotes about the wind that are sure to stick with you for a long time.
Side note: While I did try my best to include various quotes, proverbs, and sayings. If I missed any, please let me know in the comments and I will be sure to include them in future updates! π
63+ Moving Quotes About The Wind!
1. “Words are wind.” – George R.R. Martin
2. “Wisdom sails with wind and time.” – John Florio
3. “The wind in a man’s face makes him wise.” – John Ray
4. “To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.” – George Herber
5. “The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.” – Joan Didion
6. “Happiness comes the way the wind blows.” – Mikhail Lermontov
7. “Kites rise highest against the wind not with it.” – Winston Churchill
8. “And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.” – Khalil Gibran
9. “This wind is mystical yet tame, and it sings to me.” – Marianne Curley
10. “The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist.” – John Milton
11. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” – William Shakespeare
12. “Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.” – Shania Twain
Inspiring Quotes About The Wind
13. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks
14. “The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It’s always changing.” – Don Van Vliet
15. “Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.” – Robert Breault
16. “I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.” – Evelyn Ashford
17. “Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.” – Augustus Hare
18. “The only way to see the path in the wind is to become the wind itself.” – Leza Lowitz
19. “The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.” – Ramakrishna
20. “The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.” – Ramakrishna
21. “The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.” – Pablo Picasso
22. “When you canβt change the direction of the wind adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
23. “Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain.” – Sun Tzu
24. “And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.” – Edward Gibbon
25. “You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.” – C. S. Lewis
26. “Through woods and mountain pass the winds, like anthems, roll.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27. “I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.” – Evel Knievel
28. “Not for anyone man’s delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters, all are free.” – Ovid
29. “Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man’s ingratitude.” – William Shakespeare
30. “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
31. “A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.” – Catherine the Great
32. “It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.” – Jim Rohn
33. “If you carry the weather with you, then the character is determined by the prevailing wind.” – Jamie O’Neill
Quotes About The Wind For New Beginnings
34. “Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” – E. B. White
35. “A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” – George R.R. Martin
36. “She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” – Elizabeth Edwards
37. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
38. “The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.” – Aesop
39. “If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” – Khalil Gibran
40. “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Khalil Gibran
41. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
42. “Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” – Bruce Lee
43. “The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.” – John Millington Synge
44. “Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.” – Christina Rossetti
45. “I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.” – Leo Buscaglia
46. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
47. “A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.” – Joe Bousquet
48. “The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.” – Chanakya
Motivational Quotes About The Windw
49. “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.” – Rumi
50. “The wind is us, it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.” – Truman Capote
51. “May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.” – George Jung
52. “The wind’s in the east. I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.” – Charles Dickens
53. “To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
54. “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens
55. “The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.” – Henry Beston
56. “I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
57. “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” – John Ruskin
58. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” – Jim Rohn
59. “Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” – Ashley Smith
60. “If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.” – Napoleon Hill
61. “Let mystery have its place in you, do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
62. “Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.” – Arthur Golden
63. “Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.” – Amy Carmichael