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Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything, not to turn back or stop until the thing had been accomplished.”
— Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
Tagged: Obstacles
“The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and often as you can, and keep moving on.”
— Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
Tagged: Obstacles
“Go back to your command and try to think of what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.”
— Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War Quotes
Tagged: emotions
“I believe it has never been in my misfortune to be placed where I have lost my presence of mind.”
— Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
Tagged: Obstacles
“No soldier could face danger or responsibility more calmly than he. These qualities are more rarely found than genius or physical courage.”
— J.E. Smith, Ulysses S. Grant, Eisenhower In War And Peace
Tagged: strategy, Leadership
“'Are you sure?'

'No, I am not, but in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find it out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.”
— Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
Tagged: Obstacles
“There are always more of them before they are counted.”
— Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, 1839-1865 (Library of America)
Tagged: Life
“Retreat? No, I propose to attack them at daylight and whip them.”
— Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
Tagged: Obstacles
“The task is a big one and has to be performed by someone.”
— Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865
Tagged: Obstacles
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