I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFJudge 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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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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 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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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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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