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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

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With uncertainty on one scale, courage and self-confidence must be thrown into the other to correct the balance.

— Carl Von Clausewitz

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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

— Malcolm X

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The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.

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Success is Counted Sweetest

Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne'er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar

Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host

Who took the Flag today

Can tell the definition

So clear of victory

As he defeated – dying –

On whose forbidden ear

The distant strains of triumph

Burst agonized and clear!

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Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

— JFK

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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Aloofness, character, and the personification of greatness, these qualities surround with prestige those who are prepared to carry a burden which is too heavy for lesser mortals. The price they have to pay for leadership is unceasing self-discipline, the constant taking of risks, and a perpetual inner struggle. The degree of suffering involved varies according to the temperament of the individual; but it is bound to be no less tormenting than the hair shirt of the penitent. Contentment and tranquillity and the simple joys which go by the name of happiness are denied to those who fill positions of power. One day somebody said to Napoleon, as they were looking at an old and noble monument: ‘How sad it is!’ ‘Yes,’ came the reply, ‘as sad as greatness.’

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You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

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Where there is great power there is great responsibility; where there is less power there is less responsibility; and where there is no power there can, I think, be no responsibility.

— Winston Churchill

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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

— George Patton

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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

— Warren Buffet

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Conformity is the jailor of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!

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I never delighted much in contemplating comma's and colon's, or in spelling, or measuring syllables. But now while reading Cato, if I attempt to look at these little objects I find my imagination, in spite of all my exertion to command my attention, roaming in the milky-way among the nebulae; those mighty orbs and stupendous orbits of suns, planets, satellites and comets which compose this incomprehensible Universe. And if I do not sink into nothing in my own estimation, I feel an irresistible impulse to fall on my knees, in adoration of the Power that moves, the Wisdom that directs, and the Benevolence that sanctifies this wonderful whole.

— John Adams

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