Quotes

Although I have attempted to intersperse many quotes among the other papers, I have more quotes that don't necessarily fit with any topic. And, there is no point in reiterating what these people have said much better than I possibly could.

"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."
- Karl von Clausewitz

"Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination."
- Karl von Clausewitz

"We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. ... If we have made appropriate preparations, taking into account all possible misfortunes, so that we shall not be lost immediately if they occur, we must boldly advance into the shadows of uncertainty."
- Karl von Clausewitz

"The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Unless important advantages are to be gained from hesitation, it is necessary to set to work at once. By this speed a hundred enemy measures are nipped in the bud, and public opinion is won most rapidly. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory."
- Karl von Clausewitz

"I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action."
- Fidel Castro

"Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result."
- Winston Churchill

"In war, only the simple succeeds."
-Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."
- General George Patton Jr

"In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it."
- Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
- Margareth Thatcher

"A bold general may be lucky, but no general can be lucky unless he is bold."
- Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell

"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men."
- Basil Liddell Hart

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."
- Erwin Rommel

"Winning is not a sometime thing; its an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit."
- Vince Lombardi