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?
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI 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.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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