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

Major Dick Winters

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
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
If you are a leader, a fellow who other fellows look to, you have to keep going.
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Fellow Leadership
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 find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.
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Life Peace Spend
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
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 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
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
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
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
A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.
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Acquire Impossible Man Place
Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity.
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Adversity Give Up Motivational Regard
The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.
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Depression Lack People Rejection Self Esteem Theme
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
As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
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Calculation Leadership Loss War

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