“It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
— Paul “Bear” Bryant
“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”
— Jesse Owens (on running the 100-meter dash in the Olympics)
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
— Stephen King
“I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.”
— Muhammad Ali
“It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
“There comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission—a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment he finds greatness. It is his finest hour.”
— Winston Churchill
“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.”
— Gail Sheehy
“If I had not been in prison, I would not have been able to achieve the most difficult task in life, and that is changing myself.”
— Nelson Mandela
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, `I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Freedom means choosing your burden.”
–Hephzibah Menuhin
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
–William Faulkner
“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
— Thucydides
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
— Charles Colton