Action Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

“weaker commanders would get a solid explanation about the burden of command and the deep meaning of responsibility: the leader is truly and ultimately…

— Jocko Willink

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

— Winston Churchill

“The great commander can certainly move fast and strike like lightning, but his art of war consists first and foremost in moderation, measured geometric…

— Claudio Magris

“A general may succeed for some time in persuading his superiors that he is a good commander: he will never”

— Field Marshal Archibald wavell

“No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.”

— John J. Pershing

Commanders-in-chief make really tough decisions.

— Dana Perino

“The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the…

— Claudio Magris

“Few commanders in this war could function without arriving at a sensibility in which thousands of dead and wounded men could be waved away…

— Rick Atkinson

“Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They”

— Ryan Holiday

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

— George S. Patton

“He wrote down, in a neat list, all the obligations of a sergeant because written information was what mattered in this world,”

— Paulette Jiles