True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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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.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
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Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.
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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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