Quotes About Good Generals

#1. The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu

#3. There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#5. Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

Zhuge Liang

#6. But Pavlov purely for a good purpose. Pavlov for friendliness and trust and compassion. Whereas you prefer to use Pavlov for brainwashing, Pavlov for selling cigarettes and vodka and patriotism. Pavlov for the benefit of dictators, generals and tycoons.

Aldous Huxley

#7. My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

Salma Hayek

#8. True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light.

Eric Metaxas

#9. Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

Patrick Hennessey

#10. Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.

David Hackworth

#11. I think people actually notice sometimes the content of what one is saying rather than the decibel level at which he says it. And a lot of times when people don't have a lot to say, they increase the volume.

Benjamin Carson

#12. I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Emma Bonino

#13. We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground - for we have all been babies.

Mark Twain

#14. Strength of bone and fire of mind, all wrapped around a core of steel-hard purpose that would make him a deadly projectile, once set on any course.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. Work done by human beings for human beings.

William Lethaby

#16. Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

Aristophanes

#18. People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

Ric Ocasek

#19. everyone is lied to for his or her own good. A mother telling a child it will be okay. A lover telling a lover I will always love you. Politicians promising a better and brighter future. Generals and admirals insisting war begets peace.

Julia Fierro