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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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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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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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