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"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship."

"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."

"Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes."

"Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography."

"I don't see any dearth of women leaders, it's a question of what we consider a woman leader."

"Speaking doesn t make you a Leader, but if you have Leadership skills, people want to hear you speak."

"The desire we so often hear expressed today for "episcopal figures, "priestly men, "authoritative personalities springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive."

"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership."

"One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions."
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"I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to."


"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."


"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."


"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."


"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."


"Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength."
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