There is no room for second place.
- Vince Lombardi

May your neighbors respect you,
Trouble neglect you,
The angels protect you,
And heaven accept you.
- Irish Proverb

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

“Time is neutral. It can be used either constructively or destructively.”

“The Other America”
Speech at Stanford University, April 17, 1967 – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Money never sleeps – Gordon Gekko(Wall Street)

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl S Buck

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. –John Adams

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. –John F. Kennedy

“Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.” Charlie Finley

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910-Theodore Roosevelt

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