I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAn awful lot has been written about my temper.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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