Caliber Quote by J. Oswald Sanders

“The young man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others snooze, pray while others daydream. Slothful habits are overcome,…

— J Oswald Sanders

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or…

— Sam Manekshaw

The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. On…

— John McAllister Schofield

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but…

— George Washington

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy…

— Ulysses S. Grant

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

— Anonymous

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time…

— Edmund Burke

I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his…

— Francis Galton

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous…

— Sun Tzu

As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.

— Alexander Suvorov