Accounts Quote by Winston Churchill

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an…

— Winston Churchill

When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment,…

— Sun Tzu

“Sometimes a commander’s decisions must be made without regard for how they will be perceived,” Thrawn said. “What matters is that the commander does…

— Timothy Zahn

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a…

— Eric Ludy

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

— Colin Powell

It is more important to outhink your enemy, than to outfight him

— Sun Tzu

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance,…

— Anonymous

“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

The enemy is always in the mind.

— William Goldman

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.

— Ramman Kenoun