Norman Schwarzkopf Quotations | Page 2

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

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

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

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

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.