Stanley A. McChrystal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.
The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.
When all else fails, complicate matters
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous

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