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Top 25 Jack Campbell Quotes (2025 Update)

Jack Campbell Quote: “You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.”

1. “You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “From the stars we came, and to the stars we return.”

2. “From the stars we came, and to the stars we return.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.”

3. “Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “If the people of Old Earth, our ancestors and their descendants today who remain, could keep building, could keep trying, how can we do less? We are their children, and while we bought to the stars with us all the faults and the problems and the flaws of the past, we also bought the good things, the determination, and the willingness to help others, and the imagination to build things greater then every shortcoming humanity has ever known.”

4. “If the people of Old Earth, our ancestors and their descendants today who remain, could keep building, could keep trying, how can we do less? We are their children, and while we bought to the stars with us all the faults and the problems and the flaws of the past, we also bought the good things, the determination, and the willingness to help others, and the imagination to build things greater then every shortcoming humanity has ever known.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Courage, real bravery, is being afraid and doing what you need to do anyway.”

5. “Courage, real bravery, is being afraid and doing what you need to do anyway.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “I respect you far too much to think that empty pride is the only motivator you could call on. I think what you call pride is something much more than that. Belief in yourselves, perhaps, or perseverance in the face of adversity. Those are things to be proud of. That’s not the same as being proud.”

6. “I respect you far too much to think that empty pride is the only motivator you could call on. I think what you call pride is something much more than that. Belief in yourselves, perhaps, or perseverance in the face of adversity. Those are things to be proud of. That’s not the same as being proud.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. I’m not even a god.”

7. “Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. I’m not even a god.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “The longstanding thorn in your side Captain Numos is stupid. In fact, Numos is so dense that I’m surprised he doesn’t have his own event horizon.”

8. “The longstanding thorn in your side Captain Numos is stupid. In fact, Numos is so dense that I’m surprised he doesn’t have his own event horizon.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down.”

9. “Sir, winning is usually a matter of making one less mistake than the enemy or just getting up one more time than you get knocked down.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”

10. “I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “There are things we don’t do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.”

11. “There are things we don’t do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.”

12. “Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Love needs expression, Captain Geary, or doubts grow amid the silence. Doubts of the other and doubts of yourself.”

13. “Love needs expression, Captain Geary, or doubts grow amid the silence. Doubts of the other and doubts of yourself.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?”

14. “How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we’ve yet to win. You’d think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven’t actually produced the promised results.”

15. “Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we’ve yet to win. You’d think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven’t actually produced the promised results.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Fine.” Desjani sighed. “Admiral, I recommend we get our intelligence officer up here to see if he can craft lovely poems for the singing spider wolves.”

16. “Fine.” Desjani sighed. “Admiral, I recommend we get our intelligence officer up here to see if he can craft lovely poems for the singing spider wolves.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “The road my elders dictate is a narrow one, and I no longer believe it to be the road to wisdom. I choose my ow road. I choose to do the right thing, as you call it. I would not choose another companion for that road, and should you choose to walk that road with me, it would be... ,” his voice faltered, unable to put words to Alain’s feelings, but he met her eyes, trying to let his feelings show. Perhaps he succeeded this time, because once again Mari blushed and bent her head.”

17. “The road my elders dictate is a narrow one, and I no longer believe it to be the road to wisdom. I choose my ow road. I choose to do the right thing, as you call it. I would not choose another companion for that road, and should you choose to walk that road with me, it would be... ,” his voice faltered, unable to put words to Alain’s feelings, but he met her eyes, trying to let his feelings show. Perhaps he succeeded this time, because once again Mari blushed and bent her head.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “I realized that success in most things depends on finding people stupid enough to volunteer to try doing them but smart enough to have a chance of succeeding.”

18. “I realized that success in most things depends on finding people stupid enough to volunteer to try doing them but smart enough to have a chance of succeeding.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Her hand gripped his, and even amid the fear and danger he marveled at the feeling that came with the contact. If we die holding hands in this way, will we enter the next dream together?”

19. “Her hand gripped his, and even amid the fear and danger he marveled at the feeling that came with the contact. If we die holding hands in this way, will we enter the next dream together?”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Mari took one more look at the Mechanic boiler, bit her lip, then looked at him. “I’m going to say this because in another minute we may be dead, and I don’t want to die not having told you. I love you.”

20. “Mari took one more look at the Mechanic boiler, bit her lip, then looked at him. “I’m going to say this because in another minute we may be dead, and I don’t want to die not having told you. I love you.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “We should have suspected that nonhumans were involved right from the start when the activation process didn’t involve a lot of arcane commands that had to be done in just the right order, and the destination was displayed as a name rather than using some counterintuitive code. No human software engineer would produce a device that easy to use.”

21. “We should have suspected that nonhumans were involved right from the start when the activation process didn’t involve a lot of arcane commands that had to be done in just the right order, and the destination was displayed as a name rather than using some counterintuitive code. No human software engineer would produce a device that easy to use.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.”

22. “He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “That’s the difference between good military commanders and good politicians, John Geary. You’ve shown me that a good military commander spends the lives of their people reluctantly and with regret, but does spend them when necessary. The good politician does the same thing with principles. There aren’t any fine burials for sacrificed principles, though.”

23. “That’s the difference between good military commanders and good politicians, John Geary. You’ve shown me that a good military commander spends the lives of their people reluctantly and with regret, but does spend them when necessary. The good politician does the same thing with principles. There aren’t any fine burials for sacrificed principles, though.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “I never liked cows,” General Carabali added. “I like heavily armed cows even less. And I like at least thirty billion heavily armed cows least of all.”

24. “I never liked cows,” General Carabali added. “I like heavily armed cows even less. And I like at least thirty billion heavily armed cows least of all.”

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Jack Campbell Quote: “Sagas wouldn’t be interesting if terrible things didn’t happen to the people in them.”

25. “Sagas wouldn’t be interesting if terrible things didn’t happen to the people in them.”

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