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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.

Major Dick Winters

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
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
Anticipate problems and prepare to overcome obstacles. Don’t wait until you get to the top of the ridge and then make up your mind.
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Anticipate Mind Obstacle Problem Wait
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
Find your personal peace and solitude in a turbulent world.
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Finding Peace Personal Solitude World
As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
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Calculation Leadership Loss War
Physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.
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Gymnastic Mental Physical Root Stamina Tough War
I learned a valuable lesson that nothing is ever guaranteed.
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Guarantee Learn Lesson Life Valuable
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
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 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
Lead from the front. Say, “Follow me!” and then lead the way.
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Follow Leadership Soldier
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
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
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 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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