Norman Schwarzkopf famous quotes

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

#Inspiring #Courage #Veterans Day

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Leadership #Business #Character

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Jobs #Firefighter #True Courage

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#War #Hunting #France

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

#Positive #Leadership #Business

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Relationship #Helping #Hills

When placed in command, take charge.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sports

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.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Art #Military #Men

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Mother #War #Father

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

#Veterans Day #Fighting #Soldier

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Jobs #Believe #America

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.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Thinking #Great Love #People

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Jobs #Years #Careers

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Government #Iraq #People

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

#Country #Iraq #Done

I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#War #Military #Army

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Jobs #Military #Believe

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Fear #War #Alive

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Character #Men #Judging

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Eye #Two #People

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Taken #Iraq #Cost

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Motivational Sports #Peace #War

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Circumstances #Chaotic

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Looks #Done #Today

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#War #Mean #Winning

I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Caring #Thinking #Humans

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Iraq #Mind #Looks

An awful lot has been written about my temper.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Awful #Temper

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 #Trying #Realization

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Politician

If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Tomorrow #Replaced

Choose to win Get mad, then get over it.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Military #Winning #Mad