Quotes About Ship Captains

#1. 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

#2. A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

Eugene Ionesco

#3. Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes.

Susan Sarandon

#4. 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

#5. A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Josephine Tey

#6. It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#7. 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

#8. What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

Fritz Sauckel

#9. Every experience is a gift and happens for a reason. No matter how big or small, we are reminded that we are the captains of our ship.

Alexz Johnson

#10. 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

#11. We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.

Alan Trammell

#12. Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

George Clooney

#13. When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#14. I need to gain a lot more experience. I think so much of being a director, other than the technical aspect and the artistry of it, is the confidence that you are, I think in many ways, you're the captain of the ship.

Josh Peck

#15. You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.

Michael Josephson

#16. The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Blaise Pascal

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision.

Susan Sarandon

#21. 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

#22. Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.

Michael Josephson

#23. 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

#24. In calm water every ship has a good captain.

Grover Cleveland

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

Peter Ustinov