Lord Mountbatten Quotes
"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
(Related: Mother, People, Children, Now, Will, Worry)
"You can divide my life into two."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Life)
"Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Advice, Criticism, Trouble)
"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
(Related: Father, Children)
"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
(Related: Family, Intelligence, Children, Parents)
"The primary factor in a successful attack is speed."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Successful)
"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Confidence, Decisions)
"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
(Related: First, Job)
"It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Father, Ability, Job, Mind)
"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Military, Usefulness, Value)
"This is the war I fear."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: War, Fear)
"I am much more intelligent than you think."
- Lord Mountbatten
"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Life, Right)
"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Knowledge, Mulberry)
"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Determination, Energy, Learning)
"Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Feeling, First)
"I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Goodness, Vanity)
"I have been driven demented in my career."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Career)
"I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn."
- Lord Mountbatten
"I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Man)
"I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Time, Ability, Job)
"I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Sea)
"In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Society, Computer, President)
"Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming."
- Lord Mountbatten