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I would also urge leaders to remain humble. If you don’t worry about who gets the credit, you get a lot more done.

Major Dick Winters

As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
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Calculation Leadership Loss War
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
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
Find your personal peace and solitude in a turbulent world.
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Finding Peace Personal Solitude World
A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.
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Acquire Impossible Man Place
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
A leader should strive to be an individual of flawless character, technical competence, and moral courage.
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Courage Flawless Leadership Mortal Strive Technical
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
Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity.
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Adversity Give Up Motivational Regard
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
We salute the rank not the man.
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Man Rank Slute Soldier
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 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
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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Depart Footprints Leave Live Men Sane Sublime Time
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
Physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.
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Gymnastic Mental Physical Root Stamina Tough War
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
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
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
Because I was in such good shape, my fatigue level never reached the point of physical exhaustion that contributes to mental exhaustion and, ultimately, to combat fatigue.
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Contribution Exhaust Fatigue Physical War
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
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
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
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
If you have character, that means the guy you are dealing with can trust you.
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Character Deal Guy Trust
Develop your team. If you know your people, are fair in setting realistic goals and expectations, and lead by example, you will develop teamwork.
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Development Example Expectation Goals People Real Teamwork

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