Category: army general
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Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.
Robert Baden-Powell
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I’m not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Robert E. Lee
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte