George C. Marshall Quotes

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

The price of peace is eternal vigilance

We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation. This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and, according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.

The choice is between acting with energy or losing by default.

We are in the middle of a world revolution, and I don't mean Communism. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little, poor people all over the world. They're beginning to learn what there is in life, and to learn what they are missing.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.