True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFWhen placed in command, take charge.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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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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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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