Schwarzkopf Quotes
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You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'
— Norman Schwarzkopf
For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.
— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Choose to winGet mad, then get over it. — Norman Schwarzkopf
Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'
— Norman Schwarzkopf
They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.
— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
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?
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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
When placed in command, take charge.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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
War is a profane thing.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I like to say I'm not a hero.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I get angry at a principle, not a person.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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
Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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
This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
