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Eric Greitens Quotes
Eric Greitens Quotes
Eric Greitens
American
Politician
Born:
Apr 10
,
1974
Life
Me
People
Work
World
You
It's only in the act of pushing yourself, challenging yourself to make a contribution to your community, to your family, to your country, that you actually realize your full self, you know?
Eric Greitens
Family
You
Yourself
Country
Community
Only
Self
Pushing
Know
Make
Contribution
Realize
Act
Your
Full
Challenging
Actually
If you care about people, then you're willing to act not just with compassion, but you're also willing to act with courage.
Eric Greitens
You
Courage
People
Compassion
Care
Willing
About
Also
Just
Then
Act
Our state's world famous motto, 'Show me,' reminds us that Missourians don't much value big talk.
Eric Greitens
Me
World
Value
Big
State
Our
Reminds
Talk
Motto
Famous
Us
Much
Show
Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we're willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we're also willing to respond with courage.
Eric Greitens
Love
Courage
Love Is
Compassion
Care
Our
Our Lives
Respond
Willing
Threatened
Someone
Something
Also
Whenever
Anything
Lives
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.
Eric Greitens
Politics
Time
People
Before
Cowards
Liars
Worst
Running
Some
Never
Known
Been
Governor
Exposed
Even
Brief
Ever
Every generation of Americans who has fought, every generation of Americans who has served, has suffered.
Eric Greitens
Generation
Every
American
Who
Fought
Suffered
Served
Part of the attraction of the SEAL teams was the incredible tests that it offered.
Eric Greitens
Incredible
Part
Attraction
Tests
Offered
Seal
Teams
Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.
Eric Greitens
Good
Quality
People
Jobs
Good Quality
Want
Hardworking
Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.
Eric Greitens
Work
Unions
Members
Responsible
More
Makes
Lines
Accountable
Front
Front Lines
Them
Right
Eliminate
When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.
Eric Greitens
Life
Day
Generation
Citizen
Single
Build
Every
Ourselves
Leaders
Make
Single Day
Making
Making A Difference
Person
Commit
Going
Difference
Happens
Decisions
Whole
Actually
Every Single Day
The U.S. military may well be the best-integrated large institution on the planet. You have people from every corner of the country, every ethnic background, every walk of life, and we all come together to serve.
Eric Greitens
Life
You
Together
People
Walk
Country
Military
Every
Corner
Background
Come
Institution
Well
May
Planet
Ethnic
Ethnic Background
Large
Serve
Children who know that they have something to offer others will learn that they can shape the world around them for the better.
Eric Greitens
World
Better
Will
Others
Something
Shape
Know
Learn
Around
Offer
Children
Them
Who
I'm running for Governor because we need a political outsider to move Missouri forward.
Eric Greitens
Political
Running
Outsider
Missouri
Because
Governor
Move
Forward
Need
I first started doing service, actually, as a kid, doing service projects. Later in college, I started doing international humanitarian work that brought me to places like Bosnia, Rwanda.
Eric Greitens
Work
Service
Me
College
First
Later
Projects
Kid
Brought
Bosnia
Like
Doing
Places
International
Actually
Humanitarian
Started
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.
Eric Greitens
Suffering
Courage
Fear
Better
Will
Stronger
Pain
Cripple
Destroy
Insight
More
Lead
Wiser
Make
Courageous
Course
Makes
Does
Difference
Automatically
Break
Us
Injury
Hardship
Necessarily
Resilience
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