Category: army general
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Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Robert Baden-Powell
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I’ve managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, ‘Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.’
Norman Schwarzkopf
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I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Julius Caesar
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.
Julius Caesar
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Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
Robert Baden-Powell
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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
William Tecumseh Sherman