Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFA 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 have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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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’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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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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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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