Top 25 Afloat Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Afloat Quotes from famous people such as Eric Hoffer, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Gerber, William Godwin, Allison Williams, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s balance and keep afloat.
Eric Hoffer
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.
Elizabeth Warren
When I say, ‘doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ it’ to a group of small business owners, they immediately respond. They recognize the experience of doing the same things over and over. Keeping the business afloat without ever getting ahead. And it’s more than frustrating – it’s heartbreaking.
Michael Gerber
The question now afloat in the world respecting ‘things as they are’ is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society.
William Godwin
There are lots of things about me that aren’t like the rest of my friends. But I try to learn as much about millennials as I can so I can stay afloat among them.
Allison Williams
If I had challenges in my company, I would not hesitate to sell assets to remain afloat, to get to the better times, because it doesn’t make any sense for me to keep any assets and then suffocate the whole organization.
Aliko Dangote
I have been able to help my friends and people that I believe in pay their bills and stay afloat in L.A. while following their dreams.
Chrissy Metz
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It’s a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It’s a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you’re damn right it’s a true story.
Wendy Davis
I worked with Ty Dolla Sign, YG, Nipsey Hussle, Metro Boomin – I build relationships, and I try to stay afloat with everyone who is hot or cool, period.
Lil Durk
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Audre Lorde
When folks are in desperate times – say, like being stuck in the middle of a long-running interplanetary war – they grasp onto anything that might keep them afloat.
Jim Starlin
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop – not one drop!
Joshua Slocum
One of the first things President Trump did to stimulate the economy was to remove harmful regulations that left our small banks, energy companies and other businesses treading water to stay afloat.
Charlie Kirk
Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.
David Byrne
I had no background in communications but what I did have was an excellent education from Providence College and a love of basketball. That afforded me the chance to be good on my feet and stay afloat while I learned the media business.
Doris Burke
We did a dish called seafood thermidor, which was, essentially, a glorified fish pie. It’s great because you don’t use much fish in it. It’s all sauce and potatoes, but people loved it! It kept us afloat.
Rick Stein
The vision, determination, stamina, hope, relentlessness, and sheer work that are involved in staying afloat, much less succeeding, are the same whether you are running a window on 47th Street or Miramax Films or Microsoft.
Bob Weinstein
‘Titania’ is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on ‘Titania.’
John Caudwell
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
Seamus Heaney
Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.
Jonathan Raban
I’m in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I’ve been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.
Ali Larter
I started adapting, and that’s how I’ve been able to stay afloat all these years. It’s important to be adaptable.
Denzel Curry
I’m lucky to have Penny around, she keeps the ship afloat.
Diana Taurasi
It’s weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.
Peter Capaldi
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.
Anna Quindlen