Erwin Rommel Quotes

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don'tin your endurance of fatigue and privation. always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

Winning the men's confidence requires much of a commander. He must exercise care and caution, look after his men, live under the same hardships, and-above all- apply self discipline. But once he has their confidence, his men will follow him through hell and high water.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

When there's no clear option, it's better to do nothing.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.