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.
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.
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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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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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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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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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When placed in command, take charge.
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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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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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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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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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