Lord Mountbatten famous quotes

04-23-2025

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Prayer #Thinking #Memorial
The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Confidence #Team #Decision
My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Mother #Children #Thinking
Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#War #Men #Fabric
The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Military #War #Race
In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#President #Computer #British
It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Done #Curious #Said
My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Children #Father #My Children
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Military #Trophies #Usefulness
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Giving #Advice #Criticism
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Floating #Mulberry #Grew
Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Children #Real #Parent
The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Successful #Speed
You can divide my life into two.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Two
What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Kings #Jobs #Firsts
I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Sea
Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Determination #Animal #Political
Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Sweet #Crazy #Aunt
I am much more intelligent than you think.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Intelligent #Thinking
I have been driven demented in my career.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Careers #Driven #Demented
I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Believe #Vanity #Goodness
I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Truman #Turns
I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Jobs #Men #Odd
I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Jobs #Long #Born
Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Thinking #Ira #Target
It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Jobs #Father #Mind

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