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?
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFIt’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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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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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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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 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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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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