Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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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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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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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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I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting.
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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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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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.
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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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All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.