Napoleon Hill
Author, Motivational Speaker
"We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts."
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Captains
191 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days."
Lister Sinclair
Author
"A frightened captain makes a frightened crew."
Francis Drake
Explorer
"Great things have small beginnings."
Henry Ford
Industrialist
"You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul."
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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."
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"I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!"
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"I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour."
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"Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line."
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"What wine goes with Captain Crunch?"
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"You don't have to be captain to have an opinion."
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"Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for."
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"She was the captain of her soul"
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"Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second"
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"Oh captain my captain"
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"Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor."
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"My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command."
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"Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale."
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"I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do."
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"It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may."
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"Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor."
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"It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time."
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"Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion."
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"[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."
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"During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo."
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