Eric Greitens Quotes

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• I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes…
• Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be…
• I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin, and that every warrior, every humanitarian, every citizen is built to live…
• The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We…
• FEARLESS is a vivid account of one man's journey from all-American boy to all-American hero. Blehm's writing takes you beyond the battlefield and right to…
• Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only…
• Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us,…
• Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work,…
• There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done…
• A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to…
• As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.
• If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.
• If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly…
• ...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

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