I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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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 get angry at a principle, not a person.
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