True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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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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Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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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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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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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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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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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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