A professional soldier ...

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

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
 Norman Schwarzkopf
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.
 Norman Schwarzkopf
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
 Norman Schwarzkopf
How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
 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