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 WINTERSThe recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.
More Major Dick Winters Quotes
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We salute the rank not the man.
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There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team.
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Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.
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If combat had taught me anything, it taught me what was essential in life and what wasn’t.
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Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
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As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
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The intensity of a fire, or a heavy concentration, to be a leader, you have to be able to concentrate on that fire and move just as soon as it stops or the last round hits.
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The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man.
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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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Physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.
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Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity.
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A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.
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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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I learned a valuable lesson that nothing is ever guaranteed.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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