A chief is a man who assumes ...

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says \'I was beaten,\' he does not say \'My men were beaten.\'
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.
 Billy Mills
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
 Monica Crowley
THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.
 Morihei Ueshiba

Quotes from the same author

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupery