True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFWith 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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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 believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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 was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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