“Plans are useless, but planning is essential.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
“The supreme quality for leadership is integrity.”
“Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”
“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.”
“Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.”
“Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.”
“No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.”
“If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”
“The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.”
“Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.”
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
“Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”
“Pessimism never won any battle.”
“By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.”
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
“For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!”
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
“Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.”
“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”
“Unless we progress, we regress.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
“Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it’s worthless.”
“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.”
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.”
“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”
“The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.”
“Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.”
“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.”
“The only things worth counting on are people you can count on.”
“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”
“The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.”
“Take your job seriously, but not yourself.”
“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“God, I hate the Germans...”
“Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.”
“I’ll tell you what leadership is. It’s persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.”
“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”
“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
“The final battle against intolerance is to be fought – not in the chambers of any legislature – but in the hearts of men.”
“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”
“We will accept nothing less than full Victory!”
“United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God’s help, go forward to our greatest victory.”
“The sergeant is the Army.”
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