I get angry at a principle, not a person.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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When placed in command, take charge.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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 do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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 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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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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