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If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones. You take the tough ones too.

Major Dick Winters

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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Mirror Moments Night Reflection War Yourself
It is far easier to find quiet than to find peace. True peace must come from within oneself.
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Easy Oneself Peace Quiet
I learned a valuable lesson that nothing is ever guaranteed.
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Guarantee Learn Lesson Life Valuable
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
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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Greatness People War Worse
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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Answer Life Philosophy Pride Reason
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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Alive Survive Tomorrow War
Lead from the front. Say, “Follow me!” and then lead the way.
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Follow Leadership Soldier
I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.
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Critical Failure Leadership War
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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Done Medal Mirror Night Poor Satisfaction Subsitute
Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
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Permanent Problem Solution Suicide
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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Key Leadership Man Rank Respect Success
I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.
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Life Peace Spend
If you have character, that means the guy you are dealing with can trust you.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Character Deal Guy Trust
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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Concentration Fire Intensity Leadership Stop
I would also urge leaders to remain humble. If you don’t worry about who gets the credit, you get a lot more done.
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Credit Done Humble Leadership Urge Worry

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