The secret of a leader lies ...

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
 Gail Sheehy

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.
 Gail Sheehy
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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Frustration is the mother of risk.
 Gail Sheehy
My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.
 Gail Sheehy
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
 Gail Sheehy