Omar Bradley

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."

"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."

"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than footnotes in a logical record."

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"Trust is the coin of the realm. When you take it, you take everything."

"Morale is when your hands and feet keep going when your head tells you to sit down."

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

"The real peacemeal is not in documents, but in the hearts and minds of people."

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

"In this age I would construct massive monuments to peace and brotherhood across this earth."

"I fear we are not even yet making the generalizations we ought to make from the history of mankind."

"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to fear."

"The lesson of history is that no nation can survive war unless it believes in something worth fighting for."

"We've tried so hard to make equality a reality by passing laws against discrimination. But you cannot legislate morality."

"Valor is steadfastness – not the absence of fear, but rather action in the face of fear."

"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know."

"I do not believe that any man can lead who does not act from the heart."

"A soldier's packed sack is half his marching orders."

"The one thing that counts is the courage that springs from commitment."

"A nation is only as strong as its weakest peacetime generation."

"The test of the man is not whether he has the power to do things, but whether he can refrain from doing them."

"We make war that we may live in peace."

"I have always believed that a man should do his best, but I never believed that one man could do as good a job as several."

"Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible."

"The great lesson of history is that democracy has never been attained except by those willing to fight for it."

"You will have to make up your minds to be unhappy before you can have hope of any happiness."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."