“You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that’s assault, not leadership.”

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower ~

“Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.”

~ Martha Beck ~

“Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.”

~ Laurence J. Peter ~

“It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

~ Aristotle ~

“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”

~ Arnold Bennett ~

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ”

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ~

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

~ Anna Quindlen ~

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. ”

~ Rosalynn Carter ~

“There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.”

~ Washington Irving ~

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”

~ Harrison Ford ~

“To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

~ Anna Pavlova ~

“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. ”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~