Roosevelt and Lombardi
In the battle of life, it is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds may have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs and comes short again and again, for there is no effort without error and shortcoming, who, if he succeeds, knows the triumph of high achievement; but who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Teddy Roosevelt
Leaders are made, they are not born; and they are made just like anything else has ever been made in this country-by hard effort. And that's the price that we all have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
And despite of what we say about being born equal, none of us really are born equal, but rather unequal. And yet the talented are no more responsible for their birthright than the underprivileged. And the measure of each should be what each does in a specific situation.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to be tolerant of a society who has sympathy only for the misfits, only for the maladjusted, only for the criminal, only for the loser. Have sympathy for them, help them, but I think it's also a time for all of us to stand up for and to cheer for the doer, the achiever, on who recognizes a problem and does something about it one who looks at something extra to do for his country, the winner, the leader!
Vince Lombardi