Quotes by Military Leaders - Page 6

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction
Simon Bolivar
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
Napoléon Bonaparte
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
George Washington
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoléon Bonaparte
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Morality is all right, but what about dividends?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Charles de Gaulle
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.
Nathanael Greene
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace?Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
Jeanne d'Arc
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
Napoléon Bonaparte
I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.
Douglas MacArthur
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.
James Mattis
Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.
Oliver Cromwell
Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.
Robert E. Lee
The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos…
Alexander the Great
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity.
Imam Ali bin abi Taleb
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians… and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.
Alexander the Great
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.Build me a son whose heart will be clean, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain.
Douglas MacArthur
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.
Abdelkader Djezairi
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace
As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]
Charles de Gaulle
Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice.
Frederick the Great
If the men were without passions, it would be forgivable to see Machiavel try to give some to them; he would be the new [[Prometheus]] bringing celestial fire to breathe life into robots. But no man is without passions. When they are moderated, they are the heart of the enterprise; but when the brake is stripped of them, they are its destruction.
Frederick the Great
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it’s gone.But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying – even more terrible than dying young.
Jeanne d'Arc
Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoléon Bonaparte
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not e
Alexander the Great
All people are brave when their power is rising.
Abū Muslim
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles de Gaulle
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.
Napoléon Bonaparte
They seemed so united that I loved them as one person." Lee wrote of his son and daughter-in-law on his daughter-in-law's death.
Robert E. Lee
One day the people of the world will want peaceso much that the governments will have to get outof their way and give it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
Yitzhak Rabin
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future.
Józef Piłsudski
At the age of nineteen [44 BC] on my own responsibility and at my own expense I raised an army, with which I successfully championed the liberty of the republic when it was oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.
Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus
shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.
Robert E. Lee
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war
Charles de Gaulle
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
Napoléon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoléon Bonaparte
History is written by the winners.
Napoléon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoléon Bonaparte
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
Napoléon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoléon Bonaparte