Quotes By Norman Schwarzkopf

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

War is a profane thing.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

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

When placed in command - take charge.

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