Quotes by Military Leaders - Page 3

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?
Napoléon Bonaparte
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon
Men in general are but great great children.
Napoleon
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only victory over love is flight.
Napoleon
Every woman's man and every man's woman.
Julius Caesar
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism pride hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.
Napoléon Bonaparte
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
Napoléon Bonaparte
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant
You are remembered for the rules you break.
Douglas MacArthur
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
Napoleon
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
George Washington
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness the hideous ingratitude of man.
Napoleon
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon
It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.
Frederick the Great
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon
Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.
Field Marshall Lord Wavell
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle
One need not hope in order to undertake nor succeed in order to persevere.
William the Silent
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."
George Washington
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon
The devil's name is Dullness.
Robert E. Lee
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber so long as it receives messages of beauty hope cheer and courage so long are you young.
Douglas MacArthur
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Ulysses S. Grant
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles de Gaulle
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism pride hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington
The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Napoléon Bonaparte
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle
Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.
George Washington
One of the most important factors not only in military matters but in life as a whole is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Fear that man who fears not God.
Abd-el-Kader
Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
It [gaming] is the child of avarice the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief.
George Washington
True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
God same me from my friends I can protect myself from my enemies.
Marshal de Villars
God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies.
Marshall de Villars
France always has plenty men of talent but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
Napoleon
Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
Robert E. Lee
Forethought we may have undoubtedly but not foresight.
Napoleon
Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
Napoleon
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley
Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
Napoléon Bonaparte
All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.
Charles de Gaulle
Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
Napoléon Bonaparte
All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.
Napoléon Bonaparte
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
Napoléon Bonaparte
We must never despair our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.
George Washington
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
Dwight D. Eisenhower