7 Quotes by Sam Manekshaw

What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.

There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

It’s nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

Don’t you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don’t poke my nose into other people’s affairs.

I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

After India’s victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.