Time Quote by 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

“We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.”

— Orson Scott Card

“No Senior military commander can for years on end expect his soldiers to lay down their lives for victory and then precipitate defeat by…

— Erich von Manstein

“Nobody wins wars. Generals plan battles to be swift and decisive. When they are not, the aim is to end the conflict less defeated…

— Steph Bennion

“Some battles don’t have a winner. Sometimes the best a good general can hope for is a ceasefire”

— Emma Chase

“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

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?”

— Orson Scott Card

“Hullo, commandant,' I said, 'how's the General?' 'Which general?' he asked with a shy grin. 'Surely in the Caodaist faith,' I said, 'all generals…

— Graham Greene

“There are times in every commander's life when he must yield the stick of authority to a subordinate. Sometimes the reason is one of…

— Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

— Douglas MacArthur