Chapter 37. Live Your Values
Duty, honor, and country are the three values specified in West Point's famous motto. The motto was selected in 1898, just one year before MacArthur entered the academy. He embraced it as a cadet and worked to embody its values for the rest of his life.
The importance that MacArthur assigned to values was clear in the famous final speech he gave at West Point on May 12, 1962. “Duty-honor-country,” he said. “Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” He went on to explain to the cadets the significance of values and their power to provide balance to a leader's approach and actions:
They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and ...
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