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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

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
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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God Job War
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Military Motivational Peace Sports
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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Duty Rough
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Human Being Personality
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
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
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
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Absolute Hate War
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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Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
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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Leadership Want
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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Apologize Fish Hunt
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
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Business Character Combination Leadership Strategy
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Fight Soldier Veterans Day
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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Alarm Chemical
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
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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Alive Business Fear War
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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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
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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Battle Courage Hero Veterans Day
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
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Secret Success Sweat Sweet
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
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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Advice Enemy God Love

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