Arleigh Burke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
-- Arleigh Burke

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Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
-- Arleigh Burke

#Leadership #Determination #Jobs
The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.
-- Arleigh Burke

#Military #Differences #Officers
This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.
-- Arleigh Burke

#Fighting #Navy #Ships
The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.
-- Arleigh Burke

#Leadership #Government #Humanity
For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.
-- Arleigh Burke

#Powerful #War #Mean
Success can not be administrated.
-- Arleigh Burke

#Military #Can Not
There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.
-- Arleigh Burke

#War #Fighting #Men
The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.
-- Arleigh Burke

#War #Mind #Deterrent

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, [etc. ] the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
I don't have any delusions. I don't think I would make it through Navy SEAL training.
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.
I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen

Arleigh Burke famous quotes

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