I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFYou can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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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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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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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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