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“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” – Dale Carnegie

“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.” – Vince Lombardi

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” – Thomas Huxley

“To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.” – Oliver Goldsmith

“The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ” – James Buchanan

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.” – John Burroughs

“The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.” – Rumi

“Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.” – Nitin Nohria

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. – Robert Jarvik

“Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” – George Sand

“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.” Lou Holtz

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu

“To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.” – Eric Hoffer

“Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.” – Steve Pavlina

“Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable.” – Ordway Tead

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi

“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared … It means you go on even though you’re scared.” – Angie Thomas