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Admiral Inspirational Quotes (87)

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England expects that every man will do his duty.
Horatio Nelson
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Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.
Hyman Rickover
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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.
Hyman Rickover
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I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink.
William Halsey
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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson
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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
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When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.
Horatio Nelson
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I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
Horatio Nelson
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In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.
Horatio Nelson
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Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
Horatio Nelson
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Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.
Hyman Rickover
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Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.
Horatio Nelson
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The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle but he dreads disgrace yet more.
Horatio Nelson
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If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
Horatio Nelson
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Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an officer of the court and keep the general interest always in mind.
Hyman Rickover
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Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done
Hyman Rickover
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Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.
Hyman Rickover
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If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh.
Chester W. Nimitz
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The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.
William Halsey
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I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
Horatio Nelson
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Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.
Horatio Nelson
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To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent consistency is the refuge of fools.
Hyman Rickover
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Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
Horatio Nelson
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The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
Horatio Nelson
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