An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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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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 prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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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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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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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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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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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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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 can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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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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