The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.
MAJOR DICK WINTERSIf you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones. You take the tough ones too.
More Major Dick Winters Quotes
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Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity.
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I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.
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Physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.
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If you are a leader, a fellow who other fellows look to, you have to keep going.
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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.
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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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A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.
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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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Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
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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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I learned a valuable lesson that nothing is ever guaranteed.
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We salute the rank not the man.
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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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It is far easier to find quiet than to find peace. True peace must come from within oneself.
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I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.
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