As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
MAJOR DICK WINTERSIf you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones. You take the tough ones too.
More Major Dick Winters Quotes
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I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.
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Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity.
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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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Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
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Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.
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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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A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.
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Physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.
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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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If you are a leader, a fellow who other fellows look to, you have to keep going.
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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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Because I was in such good shape, my fatigue level never reached the point of physical exhaustion that contributes to mental exhaustion and, ultimately, to combat fatigue.
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We salute the rank not the man.
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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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