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Top 30 Harold G. Moore Quotes (2024 Update)

Harold G. Moore Quote: “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. – SHAKESPEARE, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3.”

1. “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. – SHAKESPEARE, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “I can’t promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.”

2. “I can’t promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “The discipline that makes an effective leader begins in the home.”

3. “The discipline that makes an effective leader begins in the home.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “Fewer things will impact a team’s morale than a leader who does not recognize their accomplishments and hard work.”

4. “Fewer things will impact a team’s morale than a leader who does not recognize their accomplishments and hard work.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “No job is ever “beneath” you. In whatever you do, do it to the best of your abilities.”

5. “No job is ever “beneath” you. In whatever you do, do it to the best of your abilities.”

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Harold G. Moore Quote: “I told Sergeant Major Plumley that he had unrestricted access to me at any time, on any subject he wished to raise.”

6. “I told Sergeant Major Plumley that he had unrestricted access to me at any time, on any subject he wished to raise.”

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Harold G. Moore Quote: “We discovered in that depressing, hellish place, where death was our constant companion, that we loved each other. We killed for each other, we died for each other, and we wept for each other. And in time we came to love each other as brothers.”

7. “We discovered in that depressing, hellish place, where death was our constant companion, that we loved each other. We killed for each other, we died for each other, and we wept for each other. And in time we came to love each other as brothers.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. – STEPHEN CRANE, “The Colors.”

8. “You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. – STEPHEN CRANE, “The Colors.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “To be a leader, you must be willing to be a lifelong learner.”

9. “To be a leader, you must be willing to be a lifelong learner.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “On those occasions when one of my people did not perform as expected, I found that in many cases at least half the fault was my own. I had either not put out clear, clean instructions or I had not trained that person sufficiently, or I had given him a task with little or no possibility of accomplishment.”

10. “On those occasions when one of my people did not perform as expected, I found that in many cases at least half the fault was my own. I had either not put out clear, clean instructions or I had not trained that person sufficiently, or I had given him a task with little or no possibility of accomplishment.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “Leadership is a highly personal, individual matter. Each leader must establish his own approach based on an internal compass using a method geared to his personality, his capabilities but always oriented towards accomplishing the mission while knowing and taking care of his men.”

11. “Leadership is a highly personal, individual matter. Each leader must establish his own approach based on an internal compass using a method geared to his personality, his capabilities but always oriented towards accomplishing the mission while knowing and taking care of his men.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “He who controls the Central Highlands controls South Vietnam. – Vietnamese military maxim.”

12. “He who controls the Central Highlands controls South Vietnam. – Vietnamese military maxim.”

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Harold G. Moore Quote: “Nothing was wrong, except that nothing was wrong.”

13. “Nothing was wrong, except that nothing was wrong.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “Oh, my dear. My young wife. When the troops come home after the victory, and you do not see me, please look at the proud colors. You will see me there, and you will feel warm under the shadow of the bamboo tree.”

14. “Oh, my dear. My young wife. When the troops come home after the victory, and you do not see me, please look at the proud colors. You will see me there, and you will feel warm under the shadow of the bamboo tree.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “Fear comes, and once you recognize it and accept it, it passes just as fast as it comes, and you don’t really think about it anymore. You just do what you have to do, but you learn the real meaning of fear and life and death.”

15. “Fear comes, and once you recognize it and accept it, it passes just as fast as it comes, and you don’t really think about it anymore. You just do what you have to do, but you learn the real meaning of fear and life and death.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “War is a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead. – ERNEST HEMINGWAY.”

16. “War is a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead. – ERNEST HEMINGWAY.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “You had to get on the ground with your troops to see and hear what was happening. You have to soak up firsthand information for your instincts to operate accurately. Besides, it’s too easy to be crisp, cool, and detached at 1, 500 feet; too easy to demand the impossible of your troops; too easy to make mistakes that are fatal only to those souls far below in the mud, the blood, and the confusion.”

17. “You had to get on the ground with your troops to see and hear what was happening. You have to soak up firsthand information for your instincts to operate accurately. Besides, it’s too easy to be crisp, cool, and detached at 1, 500 feet; too easy to demand the impossible of your troops; too easy to make mistakes that are fatal only to those souls far below in the mud, the blood, and the confusion.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “A commander in battle has three means of influencing the action: Fire support, now pouring down in torrents; his personal presence on the battlefield; and the use of his reserve.”

18. “A commander in battle has three means of influencing the action: Fire support, now pouring down in torrents; his personal presence on the battlefield; and the use of his reserve.”

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Harold G. Moore Quote: “Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. Those who hated it the most – the professionally sensitive – were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. They hated us as well, and we went to ground in the cross fire, as we had learned in the jungles.”

19. “Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. Those who hated it the most – the professionally sensitive – were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. They hated us as well, and we went to ground in the cross fire, as we had learned in the jungles.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “From that visit I took away one lesson: Death is the price you pay for underestimating this tenacious enemy.”

20. “From that visit I took away one lesson: Death is the price you pay for underestimating this tenacious enemy.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “In the words of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: “There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.”

21. “In the words of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant: “There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.”

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Harold G. Moore Quote: “If you seek to correct a subordinate’s overall behavior or performance, start by telling them what they do well, then tell them where they need to improve.”

22. “If you seek to correct a subordinate’s overall behavior or performance, start by telling them what they do well, then tell them where they need to improve.”

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Harold G. Moore Quote: “Their orders were to draw the newly arrived Americans into battle and search for the flaws in their thinking that would allow a Third World army of peasant soldiers who traveled by foot and fought at the distant end of a two-month-long supply line of porters not only to survive and persevere, but ultimately to prevail in the war – which was, for them, entering a new phase.”

23. “Their orders were to draw the newly arrived Americans into battle and search for the flaws in their thinking that would allow a Third World army of peasant soldiers who traveled by foot and fought at the distant end of a two-month-long supply line of porters not only to survive and persevere, but ultimately to prevail in the war – which was, for them, entering a new phase.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “In war, truth is the first casualty. – AESCHYLUS.”

24. “In war, truth is the first casualty. – AESCHYLUS.”

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Harold G. Moore Quote: “A quarter-century later, General Norm Schwarzkopf would date the birth of his famous hot temper to those days, when he begged and pleaded on the radio for someone to evacuate his wounded South Vietnamese soldiers, while American helicopters fluttered by without stopping.”

25. “A quarter-century later, General Norm Schwarzkopf would date the birth of his famous hot temper to those days, when he begged and pleaded on the radio for someone to evacuate his wounded South Vietnamese soldiers, while American helicopters fluttered by without stopping.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “There are only three principles of warfare: Audacity, Audacity, and AUDACITY!”

26. “There are only three principles of warfare: Audacity, Audacity, and AUDACITY!”

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Harold G. Moore Quote: “We need leaders of principle, courage, character, wisdom, and discipline, and yet we seem trapped by a system of choosing our presidents that pushes those who possess those traits aside in favor of others who look good on television, are skilled at slandering and demonizing their opponents in a campaign, and are able to raise the hundreds of millions of dollars required to ensure election at any cost.”

27. “We need leaders of principle, courage, character, wisdom, and discipline, and yet we seem trapped by a system of choosing our presidents that pushes those who possess those traits aside in favor of others who look good on television, are skilled at slandering and demonizing their opponents in a campaign, and are able to raise the hundreds of millions of dollars required to ensure election at any cost.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “In the American Civil War it was a matter of principle that a good officer rode his horse as little as possible. There were sound reasons for this. If you are riding and your soldiers are marching, how can you judge how tired they are, how thirsty, how heavy their packs weigh on their shoulders?”

28. “In the American Civil War it was a matter of principle that a good officer rode his horse as little as possible. There were sound reasons for this. If you are riding and your soldiers are marching, how can you judge how tired they are, how thirsty, how heavy their packs weigh on their shoulders?”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “No one starts a war – or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so – without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.”

29. “No one starts a war – or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so – without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.”

— Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore Quote: “It was the final act of a North Vietnamese soldier who was killed. Before he died he took a hand grenade and held it against the stock of his weapon. Then he had gotten on his knees and bent over double. If anybody tried to get his weapon they were going to activate that hand grenade. When I saw the dedication of those two Vietnamese with their hand grenades, I said to myself: We are up against an enemy who is going to make this a very long year.”

30. “It was the final act of a North Vietnamese soldier who was killed. Before he died he took a hand grenade and held it against the stock of his weapon. Then he had gotten on his knees and bent over double. If anybody tried to get his weapon they were going to activate that hand grenade. When I saw the dedication of those two Vietnamese with their hand grenades, I said to myself: We are up against an enemy who is going to make this a very long year.”

— Harold G. Moore

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