Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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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 learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

Failure

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."

- Thomas Edison

Failure

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

Failure

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

- Homer Simpson

Failure

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

Failure