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"Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done."
"When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."
"A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts."
"It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership."
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
"I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business."
"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
"No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor."
"If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?"
"The cautious seldom err."
"Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility."
"Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them."
"In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great."
"Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it."
"The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost."
"A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure."
"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!"
"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize."