I get angry at a principle, not a person.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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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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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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