Major Dick Winters Quotes

Develop your team. If you know your people, are fair in setting realistic goals and expectations, and lead by example, you will develop teamwork.

If you are a leader, a fellow who other fellows look to, you have to keep going.

Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.

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.

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.

As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.

Find your personal peace and solitude in a turbulent world.

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.

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.

The only thing I asked for now was to be alive tomorrow morning and to survive another day. That was all that mattered.