Best Officers Quotes
483 Officers quotes by 391 unique authors
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He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.
— Sun Tzu
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Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
— Zhuge Liang
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It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.
— William A. Connelly
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The goal of the corps of NCOs, whose duty is the day-to-day business of running the Army so that the officer corps has time to…
— William G. Bainbridge
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Soldiers expect the noncommissioned officer to be technically proficient, up front, and honest with them. Soldiers must know that NCOs care, that they can approach…
— Glen E. Morrell
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We want the Army to be society's model of fair treatment. We want to assure that all soldiers are treated fairly, not because it is…
— Silas L. Copeland
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The trust, confidence, and support given to us by our chain of command, and the tenacity of the great noncommissioned officers of the past, have…
— Julius W. Gates
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Without self-discipline, a noncommissioned officer can never develop or maintain personal integrity.
— Silas L. Copeland
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Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as…
— Oliver Hazard Perry
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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous…
— Edmund Burke
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All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops led by the…
— Mao Zedong
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In Chicago, having crashed his motorcycle into a car. According to police reports, his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit and…
— Bob Probert
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There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologize…
— Mel Gibson
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It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of…
— Frederick The Great
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The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.
— Arleigh Burke
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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the…
— George Carlin
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While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very…
— Abraham Lincoln
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At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps…
— Nils Kjaer
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The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as…
— Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
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I've never struggled with that at all. In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children,…
— Rick Perry
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The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
— Thucydides
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We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their…
— John Abizaid
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Don't say it's impossible! Turn your command over to the next officer. If he can't do it, I'll find someone who can, even if I…
— Stonewall Jackson
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