If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones. You take the tough ones too.
MAJOR DICK WINTERSOne 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.
More Major Dick Winters Quotes
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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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Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.
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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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Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
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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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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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If combat had taught me anything, it taught me what was essential in life and what wasn’t.
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I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.
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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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Physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.
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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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The paratroopers were the best soldiers at the infantry school and I wanted to be with the best.
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The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.
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Lead from the front. Say, “Follow me!” and then lead the way.
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War is romantic only to those who are far away from the sounds and turmoil of battle.
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