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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Battle Myself Planning Preparation
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Development Experience
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Children Death Life Tragedy
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Children Existence Necessary Problem Understood World
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Art Himself Leadership
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Myself Word Worry
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Deep Food Loss Weapon
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Stupidity War
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Discipline Freedom
How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Achievement Foundation Security Strength
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Death Flower Freedom Heart Life Man Spirit
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Bad Blame Heart Love Yourself
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong

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