What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

“Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing.” – Carlos Ghosn

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. – Anne Sullivan

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. – Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931