A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it.
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.