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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFA 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.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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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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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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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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