I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt 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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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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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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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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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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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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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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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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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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