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“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

“Calamity is the test of integrity.”

“Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.”

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.”

“Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?”