black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man.

Major Dick Winters

It is far easier to find quiet than to find peace. True peace must come from within oneself.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Easy Oneself Peace Quiet
The paratroopers were the best soldiers at the infantry school and I wanted to be with the best.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

School Soldier Want
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.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Cycle Fear Realize Share Soldier War
A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Acquire Impossible Man Place
There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Job Leadership Team Traning
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.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Answer Life Philosophy Pride Reason
If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones. You take the tough ones too.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Easy Leadership Tough
The only thing I asked for now was to be alive tomorrow morning and to survive another day. That was all that mattered.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Alive Survive Tomorrow War
We all experienced sleep deprivation at times – hat is the nature of stress but a physically exhausted leader routinely makes poor decisions in times of crisis.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Deprivation Exhaust Experience Hat Leadership Nature Physical Stress
Lead from the front. Say, “Follow me!” and then lead the way.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Follow Leadership Soldier
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.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Done Medal Mirror Night Poor Satisfaction Subsitute
The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Key Leadership Man Rank Respect Success
War exposes the best and worst of those who are called to fight. I know of no man who lacked character in peace and then discovered his character in combat.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Character Discover Fight Lack Peace War
Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Concentration Men
The men trust in you, have faith in you, and they obey, no questions asked. That’s character in a nutshell.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Character Faith Men Question Trust
I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Critical Failure Leadership War

The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Major Dick Winters Quotes