Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFSuccess is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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