Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who…

- Bernard Law Montgomery

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

- Bernard Law Montgomery

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

- Bernard Law Montgomery

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

- Bernard Law Montgomery

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

- Bernard Law Montgomery

Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the…

- Bernard Law Montgomery

The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to f…

- Bernard Law Montgomery

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

- Bernard Law Montgomery

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confid…

- Bernard Law Montgomery