Ability (part 2)

"God obligeth no man to more than he hath given him ability to perform."

  _Koran

"The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. "

_Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, "Of Anger," 1588

"The acid test of an officer who aspires to high command is his ability to be able to grasp quickly the essentials of a military problem, to decide rapidly what he will do, to make it quite clear to all concerned what he intends to achieve and how he will do it, and then to see that his subordinate commanders get on with the job."

_Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, Memoirs of Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1958.

"A general's ability lies in judging the best moment for attack and in knowing how to prepare for it."

_Adant du Picq, Battle Studies, 1880

"Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us."

_Pindar,Odes, circa fifth century B.C.

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

_Theodore Roosevelt

"The general must know how to get his men their rations and every other kind of stores needed for war, He must have imagination to originate plans-practical sense and energy to carry them through. He must be: observant, untiring, shrewd, kindly and cruel, simple and crafty, a watchman and a robber, lavish and miserly, generous and stingy, rash and conservative. All these and many other qualities both natural and acquired he must have. He should also, as a matter of course, knw his tactics; far a disorderly mob is na mare an army

than a heap of building materials is a house."

_Socrates

"The skillful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man by the hand."

_Sun-Tzu, The Art of War, circa fourth century B.C.

"I rate the skillful tactician above the skillful strategist, especially him who plays the bad cards well."

_Field Marshal Sir Archibald P, Wave11, Soldiers and Soldiering, 1953

Sumber: Robert A. Fitton

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