Naval Power Quotes

#1. Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Raymond Chandler

#2. Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone's feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love - the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you. I lie that you might feel loved.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

David Steindl-Rast

#4. I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

Kelly Lynch

#5. The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Samuel Smiles

#6. Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.

Suzanne Collins

#7. We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate ... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

Christopher Reeve

#8. Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Isoroku Yamamoto

#9. Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.

George Friedman

#11. We remember moments, not the blur of days.

Jeffrey A. White

#12. He should have stayed a frog. Not all men are meant to dance with dragons.

George R R Martin