136 Quotes by Norman Schwarzkopf

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

I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.

It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?

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.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.

How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.