Eric Greitens Quotes

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Eric Greitens

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 10, 1974

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

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Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

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Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.

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I've never been in politics before, but even in the brief time that I've been running for governor, I've been exposed to some of the worst people I've ever known. Liars, cowards, sociopaths.

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Ask yourself, how can I learn from the people around me. Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven't yet found a way to learn from them.

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The people who believe in voter intimidation believe that the minute you make a political donation, that you immediately need to turn all your information over to the government.

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People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made - and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn't show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you're disabled. Don't even try.

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Tort reform is important. We need to prevent trial lawyers from killing good jobs.

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Success means eliminating Al Qaeda's ability to launch terrorist attacks against the United States and our allies.

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It's really important to have role models, and a lot of the ancients always talked about this. Seneca talked about this, Aristotle talked about this, and in fact, this was my boxing coach's philosophy in college, was that you have to have role models.

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So Hell Week is considered to be the hardest week of the hardest military training in the world. It is a week of continuous military training during which most classes sleep for a total of two to five hours over the course of the entire week.

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What happens for a lot of veterans when they come home, especially when they get back to their community is that they can go to a very tough and hard place and they start to wonder, 'What's next for me?' and they ask themselves, 'Why did this happen to me?'

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Every entrepreneur has to deal with hardship, but if we're tough enough and thoughtful enough, we can find a way to make hard things make us better.

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People know if you care about them. How do you show people that you care? By caring for them. By putting their needs first. By sacrificing for them. By serving them. Do that, and you'll build a great team.

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The mistake that I made was that I was engaged in a consensual relationship with a woman who was not my wife. That is a mistake for which I am very sorry.

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I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.

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God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.

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One of the things that I've found in everything that I've done: People want leaders to create a sense of direction and to lead and to act.

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I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.

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My parents were both Democrats and I grew up as a Democrat. Basically I was told that the Democrats were the party that cared about people. I liked people and I cared about them, so I was a Democrat.

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