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I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.

Major Dick Winters

The men trust in you, have faith in you, and they obey, no questions asked. That’s character in a nutshell.
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Character Faith Men Question Trust
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
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
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
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
Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.
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Concentration Men
Find your personal peace and solitude in a turbulent world.
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Finding Peace Personal Solitude World
If combat had taught me anything, it taught me what was essential in life and what wasn’t.
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Essential Life Teaching
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
War exposes the best and worst of those who are called to fight. I know of no man who lacked character in peace and then discovered his character in combat.
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Character Discover Fight Lack Peace 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
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
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
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
As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
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Calculation Leadership Loss War
A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.
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Acquire Impossible Man Place

I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.

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