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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
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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Duty Rough
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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Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
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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Battle Courage Hero Veterans Day
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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Country Destroy Intention
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
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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Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Military Motivational Win
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
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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Army Military War
Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
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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Business Leadership Positive

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