Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
- Topic: Adversity, Leadership
- Location: Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
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To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.
He who fears the sun will not become chief.
