Capable Quote by John Abizaid Download Open image “Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.” — John Abizaid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capable Leader Leadership Military Morale Troops
To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
”Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You must give soldiers reasons to have confidence and pride in themselves, in their leaders, and in their units. Only then will you have… — George W. Dunaway Copy Share Image
The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders. — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not. — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
I think many of the virtues and values of the army are very similar to the virtues and values of socialism, of the Labour… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
We need to make it very clear to the Iranians, the same way we made it clear to the Soviet Union and China, that… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence. — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a… — John Taylor Copy Share Image