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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFLeadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
-
-
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
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 SCHWARZKOPF -
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF -
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF