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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFDo what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the 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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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