Top 100 Quotes About Captains
#1. If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body
Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit,
Felt in the tingling bruises of collision,
And known to captains as esprit de corps.
Anthony Hecht
#2. The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them ... and royally squander their lives with her.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#3. He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.
Steve Waugh
#4. To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things,
Anne Bradstreet
#5. I'd love to develop a game and make the music for it. I'd love to do something based on Captain Lights. Who knows if that'll ever happen, but I'd love to do it.
Lights
#6. There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.
John Barrowman
#7. All men wish to be captains, but few men wish to shoulder the burden of decision, and in coming here with these others, I had staked a claim that I must wall against misfortune.
Louis L'Amour
#8. Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
Peter Ustinov
#9. Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.
Frank Miller
#11. All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well.
Edward Bach
#12. You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.
Jim Butcher
#13. I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.
Gordon Lightfoot
#14. If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#15. History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
H.L. Mencken
#16. She believed that people were captains of their own destiny. He agreed, as long as it was understood that every captain was destined to go down with the ship, and there wasn't a damned thing you could do about it.
Daryl Gregory
#17. We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
Napoleon Hill
#18. If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?
Tony Dungy
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth ... we have the capacity to overcome our limits.
Jason Silva
#22. All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art
by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#23. You've probably met moms like that. You say, "Yeah, I scored a goal in the soccer game last night." And she says, "Oh, that's nice. All fourteen of my children are the captains of their teams, and they make straight A's and can play the violin." And you just want to smack her.
Rick Riordan
#24. Florida sea captains might place a pineapple at the front door of their house to let everyone know that they had returned from a sea voyage and that the home was open to visitors. Many
James Kaserman
#27. The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.
Lawrence Booth
#28. There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw to-day, so come the Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors.
Richard Llewellyn
#29. It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.
Don Van Vliet
#30. Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings
George Whitefield
#31. Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
Anthony Kennedy
#32. How many captains of stolen ships did it take to equal one disgraced UN official? That could tie a courtroom up for a few decades.
James S.A. Corey
#33. Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.
Robert Jordan
#34. The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.
Charles M. Schwab
#35. So Captain Faith conducted the prince and his mighty captains and men of war into the castle in the very heart of Mansoul. Prince Emmanuel had come home.
Ethel Barrett
#36. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is Good But Sourav Ganguly Best Captain
Yuvraj Singh
#37. 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
#38. Call me 'Tuk-Tuk', and keep saying it, but remember I am the captain of Pakistan.
Misbah-ul-Haq
#39. Thanks, Edden," I said, truly pleased that he was sending someone for Jenks not only because now I didn't have to, but that he'd thought of Jenks at all. "You're a peach."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," he said, and I could hear his smile. "I bet you say that to all the captains.
Kim Harrison
#40. Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture.
Hayden Fry
#41. He's [Captain Cold] not the big bad, but he's certainly playing a pretty big role. Especially in the early part of the season, he's Barry's main nemesis. There is a very definitive big bad in Season 1 that will become apparent as you watch the show. How's that for saying nothing?
Andrew Kreisberg
#42. I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.
Malik Yoba
#43. To my crew: Please be reasonable and do it my way.
The Captain
Rusty Mills
#44. Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.
Lata Mangeshkar
#45. Come,
Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me
All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.
Let's mock the midnight bell.
William Shakespeare
#46. The captain of the Titanic, who said to room service, Who sent for all this ice? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#47. It's up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I'm not sure I'm on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.
Bernhard Langer
#48. I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
Wayne Newton
#49. We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.
Margaret Fuller
#50. I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy ... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship.
Nick Offerman
#51. Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.
Michael Josephson
#52. He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.
Eddie Griffin
#53. The pay and privilege of the captains of industry are now so closely linked to the quarterly dividend that they may find it personally unrewarding to do what is right for the company.
W. Edwards Deming
#54. I met [Shatner] on the set of Star Trek V, and he was horrible to me. He was cruel, and dismissive, and treated me the way I understand he treats pretty much everyone who tells him how much they loved him as Captain Kirk.
Wil Wheaton
#55. I didn't sleep with the European Cup but it was in my room! It was just special and I just had to have the cup with me, lifting the cup as Liverpool captain was just the best moment of my life.
Steven Gerrard
#56. Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
Benjamin Franklin
#57. It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.
Winston Churchill
#59. I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go.
Denzel Washington
#60. God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.
William Gurnall
#61. Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine to ease the long row ashore.
Erik Larson
#62. I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.
Susan Sarandon
#63. Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
Barry N. Malzberg
#64. Now, let's see how you fare against the Flying Dutchman and her vile captain, Davy Jones!
Davy Jones
#66. 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
#67. Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.
Rose George
#68. Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
Victor Hugo
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg
Van Jones
#74. Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
Vance Havner
#75. 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
#76. One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'
Robert Bly
#77. Interestingly enough, for me, a character like Captain Jack, you feel like you could just continue. The possibilities are endless and limitless. There is any possibility of madness and absurdity that could commence, so you feel that, with this character, you're never really done.
Johnny Depp
#78. Have the Minister's soldiers been on the march?" "Probably. Given that they're soldiers, and marching is what soldiers do, if only to impress their captains.
Edward W. Robertson
#79. I was elected a Captain of Volunteers
a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
Abraham Lincoln
#80. Maybe they made me captain because I've been here so long. But if I'm supposed to lead by example, then I'll be a terrible captain.
Thurman Munson
#81. As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.
E.W. Howe
#82. I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.
Rudolph Straeuli
#83. I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.
Gautam Gambhir
#84. The generals commanded the colonels and the colonels commanded the majors and the majors commanded the captains and the captains commanded the private, who marched with an air of proud importance because it required so many officers to give him his orders.
L. Frank Baum
#85. "Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."
Charles Dickens
#86. A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
Eugene Ionesco
#87. All revered spiritual leaders, political leaders, and diplomats, captains of industry, intellectuals, and winning generals exhibit genuine humility that empowers them to act with integrity and courage under the most distressing circumstances.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#88. No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play
Trevor Bailey
#89. We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#90. Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.
Clive Woodward
#91. What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
Jules Verne
#92. It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.
Walter Lippmann
#93. The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
Blaise Pascal
#94. You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
Don Meyer
#95. The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.
Charles M. Schwab
#96. I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.
Alan Ball
#97. The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
Sallust
#98. Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas.
Kathryn Kuhlman
#99. Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.
Courtney Love
#100. Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.
John Kasich
