Quotes & Sayings About Ship Captains
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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

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

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

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down. — Peter Ustinov

We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility. — Alan Trammell

To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence. — Karen Horney

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

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

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

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family. — Blaise Pascal

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes. — Josephine Tey

When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it. — Mata Amritanandamayi

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

The beaches. In literally hundreds of instances, a vessel's ignorance of her longitude led swiftly to her destruction. Launched on a mix of bravery and greed, the sea captains of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries relied on "dead reckoning" to gauge their distance east or west of home port. The captain would throw a log overboard and observe how quickly the ship receded from this temporary guidepost. He noted the crude speedometer reading in his ship's logbook, along with the direction of travel, which he took from the stars or a compass, and the length of time on a particular course, counted with a sandglass or a pocket watch. Factoring in the effects of ocean currents, fickle winds, and errors in judgment, he then determined his longitude. He routinely missed his mark, of course - searching — Dava Sobel

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

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

As the years passed, new myths arose to explain the mysterious objects the strangers brought from the land of the dead. A nineteenth-century missionary recorded, for example, an African explanation of what happened when captains descended into the holds of their ships to fetch trading goods like cloth. The Africans believed that these goods came not from the ship itself but from a hole that led into the ocean. Sea sprites weave this cloth in an "oceanic factory, and, whenever we need cloth, the captain ... goes to this hole and rings a bell." The sea sprites hand him up their cloth, and the captain "then throws in, as payment, a few dead bodies of black people he has bought from those bad native traders who have bewitched their people and sold them to the white men." The myth was not so far from reality. For what was slavery in the American South, after all, but a system for transforming the labor of black bodies, via cotton plantations, into cloth? — Adam Hochschild

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

You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel. — Michael Josephson

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

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

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

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

I'll always rather be in a ship that's got a captain that has some vision. — Susan Sarandon

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

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

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

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

Somebody can be the captain of the ship, which allows you to make big mistakes. — Susan Sarandon

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship. — Eugene Ionesco

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