True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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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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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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 don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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