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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.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Human Being Personality
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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Country Destroy Intention
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Secret Success Sweat Sweet
I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
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Character Deal Judgment Men Superior
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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Look Thinking Want
Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Military Motivational Win
How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Accommodate Care Fight Kill War
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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Afraid Courage Firefighter Job True
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Arrangement Believe Function Job Military
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
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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Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
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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Enemy Judging Looks

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