Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

United States, Military General
August 22, 1934 – December, 27, 2012.

Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (/ˈʃwɔːrtskɒf/) was a United States Army General. While serving as the commander of United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Gulf War.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Norman Schwarzkopf
- Right
- Wants
- Look Good
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Norman Schwarzkopf
- War
- Peace
- Sweat

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.

Norman Schwarzkopf
I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting.

Norman Schwarzkopf
- Job
- Forgiving
- Meeting
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.

Norman Schwarzkopf
- Leader
- Strength
- Tasks
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Norman Schwarzkopf
- Fighting
- Things
- Soldier
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.

Norman Schwarzkopf
- Loss
- Mission
- Minimum
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.

Norman Schwarzkopf
- Hero
- Order
- Battle

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job.

Norman Schwarzkopf
- Job
- Courage
- Afraid
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.

Norman Schwarzkopf
- War
- Dying
- Soldier