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“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

Ray Kroc

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

Arnold Glasow

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

Ronald Reagan

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”

M. D. Arnold

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Vader: "There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You've only begun to discover your power! Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict, and bring order to the galaxy."

Luke: "I'll never join you!"

Vader: "If only you knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father."

Luke: "He told me enough. He told me you killed him."

Vader: "No. I am your father.”

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

Darth Vader , Luke Skywaker

“If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.”

Ernest Shackleton

“I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.”

Ernest Shackleton

“I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.”

Ernest Shackleton

“I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.”

Ernest Shackleton

“Superhuman effort isn't worth a d--n unless it achieves results.”

Ernest Shackleton

“I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.”

Ernest Shackleton

“By endurance we conquer.”

Ernest Shackleton

“I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.”

Ernest Shackleton

“Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.”

Ernest Shackleton

“If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.”

Ernest Shackleton

“When things are easy, I hate it.”

Ernest Shackleton

“Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.”

Ernest Shackleton

“There are four lights!”

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Catain Jean-Luc Picard

“Bran thought about it. "Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?"
That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him.”

A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin

“Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”

A 1779 letter to his friend Andre Morellet

Benjamin Franklin

“Sleep is good,” he said. “And books are better.”

A Clash of Kings

George R.R. Martin

“It all goes back and back. To our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.”

A Storm of Swords

George R.R. Martin