Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall famous quotes

03-23-2025

The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Leadership #Art #Men
The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#War #Giving #Training
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Strong #War #Battle
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Military #Gun #Feelings
Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Military #Men #Ideas
The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Military #War #Understanding
Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Military #Dark #Men
Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment hitherto carried by him; (2) air supply, which relieves the vehicle of the road.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Two #Air #Soldier
At the vital point of truth, we all become a conscientious objector.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Conscientious Objectors
A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Integrity #Pride #Men
An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to answer back. The use of profanity and epithets comes under the same headings. The best argument for a man keeping his temper is that nobody else wants it; and when he voluntary throws it away, he loses a main prop to his own position.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Men #Doe #Use
The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.
-- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

#Men #Together #Cold

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