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James Stockdale Quotes: The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
         

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.


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I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.



Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.



Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.



Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.



A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.



Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.



It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.



I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.



Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.



The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.





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In the past the man has been first in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.



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I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person.



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The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.



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The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.



The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.

The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.



But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die



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Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.



It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.

It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.




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