There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team.
MAJOR DICK WINTERSIf you are a leader, a fellow who other fellows look to, you have to keep going.
More Major Dick Winters Quotes
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Develop your team. If you know your people, are fair in setting realistic goals and expectations, and lead by example, you will develop teamwork.
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That’s what officers must do – break the cycle of fear. If a soldier is concentrating on his own feelings and on his own fear, and he sees you moving around, he realizes that you’re sharing the burden with him. That’s why he can then move.
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We salute the rank not the man.
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I learned a valuable lesson that nothing is ever guaranteed.
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As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
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The only thing I asked for now was to be alive tomorrow morning and to survive another day. That was all that mattered.
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One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I’m not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.
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I have always prided myself that I do my own thinking. I have my own philosophy. I have my own answer to the reasons things have turned out in my life.
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Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
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War brings out the worst and the best in people. Wars do not make men great, but they do bring out the greatness in good men.
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True satisfaction comes from getting the job done. Ribbons, medals, and accolades, then, are poor substitutes to the ability to look yourself in the mirror every night and know that you did your best.
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Take a moment of self-reflection. Look at yourself in the mirror every night and ask yourself if you did your best.
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The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.
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The paratroopers were the best soldiers at the infantry school and I wanted to be with the best.
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It is far easier to find quiet than to find peace. True peace must come from within oneself.
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