“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Do everything you ask of those you command.

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.

Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.

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.

Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can’t do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.

I snap at people I love all the time, and that makes me feel bad about myself. I want to be Zen. I am so not Zen. Whatever Zen is, I’m the opposite of it.

Haters only hate things they can’t have and the people they can’t be. It’s just a little thing called jealousy.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

I don’t want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.