Sam Manekshaw Quotes

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  • It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

    Country   Army   People  
  • What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.

  • There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.

    Badass   Military   Army  
    "Sam Manekshaw, soldier, died on June 27th, aged 94", www.economist.com. July 3, 2008.
  • After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

    Badass   War   Army  
  • Many changes have taken place but one change remains the same that is your Task & Duty . You are required to ensure the security of this country against all the odds .What does that means to you ? It means you should have to fight & fight to win , there is no roof for the losers . If you lose don't come back , you will have disgraced the country & the country won't accept you

    Country   Taken   Mean  
  • Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

    Badass   Thinking   Long  
    "Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw" by Vinod Saighal, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.
  • I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.

    Country   Badass   Army  
  • He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

  • If anyone tells you he is never afraid, he is a liar or he is a Gurkha.

    Liars   Ifs  
  • What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.

    Army   Views   Moral  
  • If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

    Badass   Lying   Military  
    "A Nomad Repaints the Globe" by PREMJI, PartridgeIndia, (p. 70), 2013.
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Sam Manekshaw

  • Born: April 3, 1914
  • Died: June 27, 2008
  • Occupation: Military leader