"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."
- Carl von Clausewitz
Courage
"Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination."
- Carl von Clausewitz
Determination
"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."
- Carl von Clausewitz
Overcoming Obstacles
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
- Carl von Clausewitz
Philosophy
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity