True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFTrue courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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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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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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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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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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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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 get angry at a principle, not a person.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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