25 result(s) for Navy Chief Quotes.
"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.'"
"The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood."
"It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious."
"I have always regarded the Navy as the service best suited for young gentlemen."
"I joined the Navy to see the world, and what did I see? I saw the sea."
"Give me a fast ship, for I intend to go in harm's way."
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
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"I have not yet begun to fight!"
"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
"A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace."
"Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it."
"The strength of the Navy lies in its ships, the strength of ships lies in its sailors."
"The U.S. Navy is the silent force which keeps the peace."
"Among the things Billy learned was that kindness, like love, did not necessarily imply stupidity."
"Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs considerable skill to fight a losing one and yet come out of it without destruction."
"Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and popularity."
"The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
"War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other."
"In battle, it is not the strongest or fastest who win. But rather, the one who thinks he can."
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"There are ships and there are women. She is both."
"I can't say enough about the Navy, how important it is to be able to project our force and our will."
"The Navy has both a tradition and a future - and we look with pride and confidence in both directions."
"I'm a Navy brat. My father was a Navy flyer, and after World War II, he became a test pilot, and then he flew for Lockheed."
