“Character cannot be summoned at the
moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and
rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane.
The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a
life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious,
self-defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit
is the daily battleground of character.” ~ Dan Coats
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved
except by those who dared believe that something inside them was
superior to circumstance.” ~ Bruce Barton
“It is not the critic who counts, nor
the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of
deeds could have done them 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 short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself
in a worthy cause; Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” ~ President Theodore
Roosevelt
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