Final Probook - Quotes
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Leadership by: General Colin L. Powell, USA | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow. |
| Wingmen by: Lt. Col. Francis S. "Gabby" Gabreski USAF, 28 victories in WWII and 6.5 MiGs over Korea | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: The wingman is absolutely indispensable. I look after the wingman. The wingman looks after me. It's another set of eyes protecting you. That the defensive part. Offensively, it gives you a lot more firepower. We work together. We fight together. The wingman knows what his responsibilities are, and knows what mine are. Wars are not won by individuals. They're won by teams. |
| Warfare by: Col. John Boyd | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: Machines don't fight wars, terrain doesn't fight wars. You must get into the minds of humans. That's where the battles are won. |
| Leadership by: German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself and let your troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide. |
| Integrity by: Captain Paul W. Bucha (Ret.) Medal of Honor Recipient. | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: If you are not a leader of integrity, your people will not trust you, and if they don't trust you, they won't follow you, and if they aren't following you, you aren't leading. |
| Character by: Edgar F. Puryear Jr | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: When a man has strong qualities of leadership, but is of low moral character, there is always the danger that his subordinates will be influenced by his bad characteristics, to the detriment of the leader and of the group. But if the leader is a man of strong qualities of leadership and high moral character, he will endure and he will achieve better results. |
| Integrity by: General S.L.A. Marshall, British Army, Great Britain | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present. |
| Demands in War by: German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises. |
| Excellence by: Steve Prefontaine | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. |
| Excellence by: Aristotle | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. |
| Duty by: General George S. Patton Jr., USA | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself. |
| Discipline by: General George S. Patton Jr., USA | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it:There is only one sort of discipline - perfect discipline. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline. |
| Leadership by: President George Washington | What is the name of this quote, and who wrote it: Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of cause, and what it is they are contending for. |
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