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A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.

Major Dick Winters

If combat had taught me anything, it taught me what was essential in life and what wasn’t.
MAJOR DICK WINTERS

Essential Life Teaching
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.
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Deprivation Exhaust Experience Hat Leadership Nature Physical Stress
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
I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.
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Critical Failure Leadership War
If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones. You take the tough ones too.
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Easy Leadership Tough
Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.
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Concentration Men
I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.
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Life Peace Spend
Remain humble. Don’t worry about who receives the credit. Never let power or authority go to your head.
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Authority Credit Head Humble Receive Worry
The paratroopers were the best soldiers at the infantry school and I wanted to be with the best.
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School Soldier Want
Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
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Permanent Problem Solution Suicide
There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team.
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Job Leadership Team Traning
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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Company Hero Serve War
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 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
Physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.
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Gymnastic Mental Physical Root Stamina Tough War
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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Cycle Fear Realize Share Soldier War

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