Top 33 Nimitz's Quotes

#1. We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #106743
#2. Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #136947
#3. Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #383064
#4. That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #393848
#5. By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #401096
#6. I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #416091
#7. We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

Chester W. Nimitz

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#8. Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #567077
#9. The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #596533
#10. It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #685983
#11. I understood the therapists were trying to rebuild Paul's vocabulary, beginning wit the rudiments, but Paul found it taxing, boring, and disturbingly condescending. His loss of language didn't mean he was any less a grown-up with adult feelings, experiences, worries, and problems. [p. 144]

Diane Ackerman

Nimitz's Quotes #686002
#12. No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #753579
#13. Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #774395
#14. uncommon valor was a common virtue

Chester Nimitz

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#15. Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #980020
#16. Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #1159803
#17. There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.

Michael Moorcock

Nimitz's Quotes #1195647
#18. THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER AS BROTHERS-IN-ARMS. THEY DIED TOGETHER AND NOW THEY SLEEP SIDE BY SIDE. TO THEM WE HAVE A SOLEMN OBLIGATION.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #1196427
#19. Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nimitz's Quotes #1215026
#20. The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

Chester W. Nimitz

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#21. The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #1276361
#22. When you're in command, command.

Chester W. Nimitz

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#23. A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #1379186
#24. The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #1386838
#25. The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #1499693
#26. If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #1552913
#27. If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

Carolyn Chute

Nimitz's Quotes #1564977
#28. Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #1657830
#29. I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life ... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

Chester W. Nimitz

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#30. Creatures like the sheep, that are used to traveling, know about moving on.

Paulo Coelho

Nimitz's Quotes #1819410
#31. Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

Chester W. Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #1821516
#32. God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.

Chester Nimitz

Nimitz's Quotes #1859797
#33. Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.

Alan Keyes

Nimitz's Quotes #1872155

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