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"Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses."
"In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good."
"Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong."
"If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled."
"You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them."
"Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way."
"I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself."
"Only the strong survive."
"When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future."
"Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal."
"Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation."
"Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."
"There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many."
"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it."
"I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on."
"When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence."
"If their forces are substantial, prepare for them; if their forces are strong, avoid them."
"He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength."
"Infinite strength is religion and God."
