I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFChoose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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