Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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"Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

Responsibility

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

Leadership

"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

- John F. Kennedy

Leadership

"Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future"

- John F. Kennedy

Change

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

Change

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"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

Determination

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

Determination

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

Determination

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination