A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

There is only one sort of discipline - PERFECT DISCIPLINE. Men cannot have good battle discipline and poor administrative discipline.

...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.

It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.

To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.