Manekshaw Quotes

#1. After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

Sam Manekshaw

#2. He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

Sam Manekshaw

#3. Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

Robert Beverly Hale

#4. Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

Sam Manekshaw

#5. There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

Sam Manekshaw

#6. Your lack of ambition is truly remarkable.

John Green

#7. What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.

Sam Manekshaw

#8. One day I said to my dad, 'Are you disappointed that I'm working a minimum-wage job and I didn't go to college?' I'll never forget his response. He said, 'It's not about how much money you make or what your job is, but it's more about your character. For that, I'm proud of you.'

Josh Dun

#9. It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

Sam Manekshaw

#10. In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

Amish Tripathi

#11. I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.

Jose Andres

#12. If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.

Sam Manekshaw

#13. What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.

Sam Manekshaw

#14. If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

Sam Manekshaw

#15. I take the view that since I do these things everyone else does so as well.

H.G. Tudor

#16. I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

Sam Manekshaw

#17. That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

Mary Astell