If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. — Thomas Aquinas
Articulating the feelings that your people are afraid to speak is a large part of what leaders, including ship captains, do for a living. — Michael Abrashoff
When the sea is calm, every ship has a good captain. — Swedish Proverbs
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. — Ambrose Bierce
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. — Faye Wattleton
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore. — Rudyard Kipling
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. — Sterling Hayden
Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg — Van Jones
Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman. — Horatio Nelson
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. — Henry Adams
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat
You know who the good seamen are when the storm comes — Greek Proverbs
Short Ship Captain Quotes
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. — Publilius Syrus
In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it’s time for a mutiny. — Jose Arguelles
In a calm sea every man is a pilot. — John Ray
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. — Marshall McLuhan
All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. — Barney Ross
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. — Grace Hopper
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. — Marshall McLuhan
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. — Henrik Ibsen
I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one. — Joseph Conrad
Ship Captain Image Quotes
A ship in harbour is safe but thats not what ships are for.
Captain Of The Ship Quotes
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. — Robert Ballard
The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas. — Czeslaw Milosz
Fans have been very important in my career. Even though I'm just doing me and doing my thing, they're the captains of this ship. — Prince Royce
Entire water of the sea can't sink a ship, unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly negativity of the world can't put you down unless you allow it to get inside you !
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. — Horatio Nelson
The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled. — Rand Beers
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. — Mike Pence
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain. — Joshua Slocum
Life is like a ship. There's people dancing on a ship.There's a lot of money on the ship, but I cannot integrate on the ship or get equality on the ship.And I never could. I'm just in the galley working and I never could get up to see the captain of the ship. — Muhammad Ali
Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Captain Quotes
It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield. — Attila the Hun
Christians, hasten to help your brothers in the East, for they are being attacked. Arm for the rescue of Jerusalem under your captain Christ. Wear his cross as your badge. If you are killed your sins will be pardoned. — Pope Urban II
You are like a captain navigating a ship... You must give the right orders, thoughts and images to your subconscious which controls and governs all your experiences. — Joseph Murphy
I am not afraid of storm for I am learning how to sail my ship.
In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington. — Paul Revere
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. — Charles Baudelaire
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate — Johnny Depp
We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." "Very funny, Piper. — Rick Riordan
The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget. — Rudyard Kipling
I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts. — Napoleon Hill
Ship Quotes
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink. — Dwight L. Moody
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up. — John Henrik Clarke
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. — Hafez
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport. — Zayn Malik
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead. — Walt Whitman
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. — Guy de Maupassant
Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God. — Henry Blackaby
A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. — Johnny Depp
That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. [to Inara] Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint. — Joss Whedon
Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets.
Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King.
Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship.
Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business.
Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well. — Rumi
All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by. — John Masefield
Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled. — Daniel Kahneman
Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef. — Myrtle Reed
Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. — William Adams
We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most. — Plato
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won — Walt Whitman
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders. — Ludwig von Mises
Cyrus Pembridge, the Never Land’s captain, was widely regarded as the most incompetent man to comman a ship since the formation of water. “Who in the name of common sense would put to sea on that ship with that man in charge?” wondered Mack. “Well,” Alf answered, “we are.” “True,” Mack said. — Dave Barry
Gazzy: "Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R. — James Patterson
I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port. — Henrique Capriles Radonski
We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility. — Alan Trammell
A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime. — Michael Piller
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain? — Gustave Flaubert
Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologetically at Gundar. "No offense, Gundar." The skirl shrugged cheerfully. "None taken, little lady. It's a pretty fair description. Not sure about the reformed part," he added thoughtfully. — John Flanagan
In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship. You have to say, "Well, we're sailing to the left and not to the right." But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking. — Baran Odar
Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes. — Susan Sarandon
When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it. — Clive James
I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business. — Jamie Farr
When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels. — Kellan Lutz
You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel. — Michael Josephson
The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship. — Cesare Pavese
The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears. — Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
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