Master Chief or Petty Officer John-117 is the lead protagonist of the Halo video game series.

He is a fierce marine commando who never backs down from a fight. Master Chief has some of the best quotes of any video game character.

Best Master Chief Quotes

Master Chief’s got many memorable lines in Halo. Here are some famous Master Chief quotes.

1. “Yes sir, I need a weapon.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 2’.

2. “Sir, finishing this fight.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 3’.

3. “Thought I’d try shooting my way out. Mix things up a little.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 3’.

4. “Something was wrong even before we left the Dawn.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 4’.

5. “To give the covenant back their bomb.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 2’.

6. “Are any of the ship defenses online?”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 4’.

7. “I thought we had a truce with the Covenant.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 4’.

8. “She said that to me once… about being a machine.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 4’.

9. “This fight… is finished.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo: Reach’.

10. “Master Chief: You told me there wouldn’t be any cameras.

Sergeant Johnson: And you told me you were going to wear something nice!”

– ‘Halo 2.’

11. “We need to get off this ship.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 4’

12. “Cortana: Just one question: what if you miss?

Master Chief: I won’t.”

– ‘Halo 2.’

Master Chief Inspirational Quotes

Petty Officer John-117 aka Master Chief is one heck of a marine. The spartan never fails to inspire us with his words. Here are Master Chief’s most inspirational quotes

13. “Wake me. When you need me.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 3’.

14. “No, I think we’re just getting started.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo: Combat Evolved’.

15. “Cortana: We’re not gonna make it!

Master Chief: We’ll make it.”

– ‘Halo: Combat Evolved’.

16. “Ready to get back to work?”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 4’.

17. “I’m not leaving you here.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 4’.

18. “Our duty, as soldiers, is to protect humanity… whatever the cost.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 4’.

19. “Scratch one Covenant.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo: Reach’.

20. “You’ve completed your mission, Spartan Locke. Mine is just beginning.”

– Master Chief, ‘Halo 5’.

Best Halo Quotes

There are many amazing quotes throughout the Halo series. Here are the best of the lot.

21. “Don’t make a girl a promise… if you know you can’t keep it.”

– Cortana, ‘Halo 3’.

22. “I spent the last 12 hours cooped up in here, watching you toady-about helping that Thing get set to slit our throats.”

– Cortana, ‘Halo: Combat Evolved’.

23. “Arbiter: Release me or kill me, parasite, but do not waste my time with talk!

Gravemind: There is much talk, and I have listened. Through rock and metal and time. Now I shall talk, and you shall listen.”

– ‘Halo 2.’

24. “I figure if God can hear how scared I am, so can everyone else. Locke, you buying the first drink when we’re done?”

– Spartan Edward Buck, ‘Halo 5’.

25. “There are those who said this day would never come. What have they to say now?”

– Prophet of Truth, ‘Halo 2’.

26. “You have no idea how this ring works, do you? Why the Forerunners built it? Halo doesn’t kill Flood, it kills their food. Humans, Covenant, whatever! We are all equally edible. The only way to stop the Flood is to starve them to death.”

– Cortana, ‘Halo: Combat Evolved’.

27. “Gravemind: Silence fills the empty grave, now that I have gone. But my mind is not at rest, for questions linger on. I will ask, and you will answer.

Cortana: Alright. Shoot.”

– ‘Halo 2.’

28. “I see what Cortana means about your penchant for violence as a first solution. Still, the first core is deactivated. The others are nearby and easy to locate.”

– 031 Exuberant Witness, ‘Halo 5’.

29. “They never stood a chance, eh Arbiter?”

– Elite, ‘Halo 2’.

30. “Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn’t. Something no one saw… but me. Can you guess? Luck. Was I wrong?”

– Cortana, ‘Halo 3’.

31. “Give the Covenant a straight shot at Earth.”

– Lord Hood, ‘Halo 2’.

32. “All hail the conquering hero. Let us remember him as our protector and not the one who gave us… this. As our Savior and not our betrayer.”

– Jameson Locke, ‘Halo 5’.

33. “They let me pick, did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research. Watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be.”

– Cortana, ‘Halo 3’.

34. “You are the child of my Makers. Inheritor of all they left behind. You are Forerunner! But this ring… is mine!”

– 343 Guilty Spark, ‘Halo 3’.

35. “Don’t let her go… don’t ever let her go.”

– Sergeant Major Avery Johnson ‘Halo 3’.

Best Master Chief Quotes

Master Chief Quotes

on the armor shut behind him, cutting the master chief off for a moment as the suit booted up. From — Evan Currie

asked me, “what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?” I answered “they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief. Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration. — Jonathan Swift

He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed. — Jack London

I have a master chief that always said, punch and run. — Chris Kyle

The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master’s ability to pay. — Thorstein Veblen

This creature’s career could produce but one result, and it speedily followed. Boy after boy managed to get on the river. The minister’s son became an engineer. The doctor’s and the post-master’s sons became ‘mud clerks;’ the wholesale liquor dealer’s son became a barkeeper on a boat; four sons of the chief merchant, and two sons of the county judge, became pilots. Pilot was the grandest position of all. The pilot, even in those days of trivial wages, had a princely salary – from a hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars a month, and no board to pay. Two months of his wages would pay a preacher’s salary for a year. Now some of us were left disconsolate. We could not get on the river – at least our parents would not let us. — Mark Twain

4 of us, and 2000 of them. Piss-poor odds. For them. — Eric S. Nylund

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost! — A.B. Simpson

Kafka was a master at the gruesome task of picturing people who do not use their potentialities and therefore lose their sense of being persons. The chief character in The Trial and in The Castle has no name – he is identified only by an initial, a mute symbol of one’s lack of identity in one’s own right. — Rollo May

In those days of our tale, there were still some people who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors and Elrond, the master of the house, was their chief. He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves and as kind as summer. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art. — Constantin Stanislavski

He always felt himself dependent on Chief Master who sent him into this life, he knew that when dying he would still be in that Master’s power and would not be ill-used to and accustomed to. — Leo Tolstoy

YOUR LIFE IS WHAT YOU CHOOSE IT TO BE FROM EVERY MOMENT ONWARDS, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF YOUR CONTROL. AT TIMES YOU WILL HAVE TO REGROUP AND ADAPT DUE TO ISSUES OUTSIDE OF YOUR CONTROL. BUT MANY OF LIFE’S OUTCOMES ARE DETERMINED BY ITS CHIEF MASTER: YOU! — Jonny Oates

And of the sixth day yet remained
There wanted yet the master work, the end
Of all yet done: a creature who not prone
And brute as other creatures but endued
With sanctity of reason might erect
His stature and, upright with front serene,
Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence
Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven,
But grateful to acknowledge whence his good
Descends, thither with heart and voice and eyes
Directed in devotion to adore
And worship God supreme who made him chief
Of all His works. — John Milton

The thought that he might, and very probably would die that night occurred to him, but did not seem particularly unpleasant or dreadful.
It did not seem particularly unpleasant, because his whole life had been not a continual holiday, but on the contrary an unceasing round of toil of which he was beginning to feel weary. And it did not seem particularly dreadful, because besides the masters he had served here, like Vasili Andreevich, he always felt himself dependent on the Chief Master, who had sent him into this life, and he knew that when dying he would still be in that Master’s power and would not be ill-used by Him. — Leo Tolstoy

So what should I call you now?” he said when we had our breath back. “Savior of Thorvaldor? Soon-to-Be-Master Wizard? Chief Councillor of Wise Words? My own love?”
“Sinda,” I said, without the slightest twinge of old memories, or something lost, or regret. “Just Sinda. Though I like that last one almost as much.”
Kiernan reached out and tucked a strand of escaping hair behind my ear. “I think I like Sinda best myself,” he said. — Eilis O’Neal

He asked me, “what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?” I answered “they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief. Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration. Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire: what is the best colour for a coat, whether black, white, red, or gray: and whether it should be long or short, narrow or wide, dirty or clean; with many more. Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long a continuance, especially if it be in things indifferent. — Jonathan Swift

We commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and Paul, the supreme Leaders of the pre-eminent company of the Apostles? They are the fathers and guides of all Christians: Apostles, martyrs, holy ascetics, priests, hierarchs, pastors and teachers. As chief shepherds and master builders of our common godliness and virtue, they tend and teach us all, like lights in the world, holding forth the word of life. — Gregory Palamas

command master chief, whom I’ll call Primo, was another top-notch commander. He didn’t give a flying fuck about promotions, about looking good, or covering his butt: he was all about successful missions and getting the job done. And he was a Texan – as you can tell, I’m a little partial – which meant he was a bad-ass. — Chris Kyle

If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should we not think of the Communion as one of His chief appeals to us to be our best? The Lord’s Supper looks not back to our past with a critical eye, but to our future, with a hopeful one. The Master appeals from what we have been to what we may be. He bids us come, not because we are better than we have been, but because He wants us to be. To stay away because our hearts are cold is to refuse to go to the fire till we are warm. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Good try, chief, but you are sparring with a master in her craft, and didn’t we just discuss not provoking the beast? Geeze, try tosave someone’s life and they just throw it out the window. — Quinn Loftis