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I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.

Major Dick Winters

Develop your team. If you know your people, are fair in setting realistic goals and expectations, and lead by example, you will develop teamwork.
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Development Example Expectation Goals People Real Teamwork
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Contribution Exhaust Fatigue Physical War
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
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
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
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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Depart Footprints Leave Live Men Sane Sublime Time
As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
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Calculation Leadership Loss War
Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity.
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Adversity Give Up Motivational Regard
Physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.
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Gymnastic Mental Physical Root Stamina Tough War
War is romantic only to those who are far away from the sounds and turmoil of battle.
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Battle Romantic Sound War

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