Captain Quotes

“the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat”
― Neal Shusterman

“The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.”
― Matthew Norman 2, Domestic Violets

“Am I making myself clear, Orrin? I don't regret how I've lived these past few years. I move where I will. I set no appointments. I guard no borders. What landbound king has the freedom of a ship's captain? The Sea of Brass provides. When I need haste, it gives me winds. When I need gold, it gives me galleons." Thieves prosper, thought Locke. The rich remember. He made his decision, and gripped the rail to avoid shaking.
"Only gods-damned fools die for lines drawn on maps," said Zamira. "But nobody can draw lines around my ship. If they try, all I need to do to slip away is set more sail.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.”
― Captain Chief

“To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts”
― Kai McCarthy

“So I come back again to the condition that the Golden Rule, if one adopts it, is a difficult master to serve. The ship’s captain will not throw the compass overboard because the wind blows fair and the day is funny. For he knows, from the experiences of the ocean’s instability, that the danger days of storm are always “just ahead.” So the compass must always be handy and obedience to it must always be loyal. And so with the Golden Rulle—the compass must be ever at hand through life’s journey. It will see us through trying times. And perhaps the most trying of all times comes when success is riding high and we may be tempted to “throw the compass overboard.” It is then we must remember that all good days in human life come from the mastery of the days of trouble that are forever recurrent.”
― James Cash Penney

“You are the captain of your ship that never comes in”
― Daniel Lee Edstrom

“With a good captain, a rough ocean turns into a calm lake; with a bad captain, a calm lake turns into a rough ocean!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.”
― Walt Whitman

“After dinner, Holden took a long, slow tour of his new ship. He opened every door, looked in every closet, turned on every panel, and read every readout. He stood in engineering next to the fusion reactor and closed his eyes, getting used to the almost subliminal vibration she made. If something ever went wrong with it, he wanted to feel it in his bones before any warning ever sounded.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems..."
"Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

“Before facing and defeating a giant wave, no captain is a captain!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad captain.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Be a master of yourself.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A ship's captain was her master and the right hand of God in Heaven Himself, and concerned with matters of such grave importance that minor issues like food for the mortals in his command were entirely beneath him.
"I'll get someone else to take this duty, sir," Creedy said stoutly.
"The nonessential personnel are already on leave, XO," Grimm replied. "All the remaining hands are fully engaged in installing the new systems and making repairs. You know that."
"But, sir," Creedy said. "What will the crew say?"
"What they won't say, Byron, is anything like 'my captain allowed me to go hungry while demanding that I work without cease,'" Grimm said.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“Родих се в морето,
отгледан бях от пирати
станах един от тях.
Воювах срещу враговете си
и спечелих името си
наричат ме...
ОКОТО НА ВЪЛКА”
― Милен Иванов, Безсмъртното плаване на капитан Джейкъб

“The Guardian's Wildchild: Lorna tossed used linen onto the floor and snapped fresh sheets into place on the bed. She fluffed pillows into submission so they sat only as her big hands demanded. Lorna turned around and saw Sam standing in the main infirmary. She hustled into the main room and snapped to attention in front of him.

“You caught me working again.” She feigned worry. “Damn!”
― Feather Stone

“The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kindness of a captain is predicated on the obedience and efficiency of his underlings.”
― Sara Sheridan, Secret of the Sands

“There was a warrior once who fought
Against man's subtlest, mightiest foe,
And more than valiant deeds he wrought
T' effect th' enslaver's overthrow.

But ah! how dread was his campaign,
Forc'd in the wilderness to stray,
Lone, hungry, stung with grief and pain,
And thus sustain the arduous fray.

Prompt at each call from place to place,
'Mid sin's dark shade and sorrow's flow,
He sped to save man's erring race,
And bear for him the vengeful blow.

But when his soldiers saw the strife,
When imminent the danger grew,
Though 'twas for them he pledg'd his life,
Like dastards from the field they flew.

Wearied, forsaken, still he strove,
And gain'd the glorious victory;
Yet such achievements few could move,
To hail his triumpn 'beath the sky.

Dying he conquer'd; yet at last
No human honours grac'd his bier;
No trumpet wail'd its mournful blast,
No muffl'd drum made music drear.

But when he dy'd the rocks were rent,
The sun his radiant beams withheld,
All nature shudder'd at th' event,
And horror every bosom swell'd.

E'en Death, fell Death! could not detain
Him, who for man his life had given,
He burst the ineffectual chain,
And soar'd his advocate to heaven.”
― Thomas Gillet, The Juvenile Wreath; Consisting of Poems, Chiefly on the Subject of Natural History

“Don't allow others to put a cap on you. Don't simply agree when someone draws your own finishing line. You're the captain of your destiny!!!”
― Assegid Habtewold

“Do you carry a dagger, Your Highness?"
Raisa nodded. "I do, as a rule, but Micah and Fiona took mine."
"Then take this one." He wiped the blade on his breeches, returned the blade to a sheath at his waist, then unbuckled the belt, handing the whole package to her. Raisa slid the blade free, turning it so it caught the light. It was of the same make and design as the Lady sword, with the image of Hanalea worked into the hilt.
"I can't take this!" She protested. "It belongs to your family."
"I've not much use for it, in fact," Byrne replied. "If I let an enemy get close enough to need it, I deserve what I get.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne

“A boat without captain cannot remain long on the surface!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Every child has the ability to make history.”
― Emily C. Burger, Thieves of Greatness

“Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan