“Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.”

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I’ll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I’ll win a war.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

It’s the responsibility of a president to lead by example and do everything in his power to get the pandemic under control.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.

Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.

Everybody’s life is either rewarding or an example.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.