The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAny soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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