Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAny soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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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 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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