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Admiral Inspirational Quotes (87)

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Something must be left to chance nothing is certain in a sea fight
Horatio Nelson
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What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.
Horatio Nelson
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There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.
William Halsey
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There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
William Halsey
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When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.
Hyman Rickover
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All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
William Halsey
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A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
Chester W. Nimitz
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All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.
Hyman Rickover
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A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control it is systematic strangulation.
Hyman Rickover
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The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
Hyman Rickover
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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W. Nimitz
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Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.
Horatio Nelson
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A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.
Hyman Rickover
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Strike fast, strike hard, strike often.
William Halsey
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First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Horatio Nelson
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Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.
Horatio Nelson
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Time is everything five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
Horatio Nelson
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You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
Horatio Nelson
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I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.
Horatio Nelson
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Frigates are the eyes of a fleet.
Horatio Nelson
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Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.
Hyman Rickover
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It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.
Hyman Rickover
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No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.
Chester W. Nimitz
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Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz
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