“Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.”
"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
"The effort you invest today is the pride you feel tomorrow."
- Unknown
Hard Work
"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Hard Work
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."
- Harry Golden
Hard Work
"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."
- Michael Larsen
Hard Work
"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
- Colin Powell
Hard Work