“When you have chosen your part, abide by it and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself to the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common heroic. Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Tweet

“Positive power is all around us, if only we recognize it.” -Laila Ali Tweet

“Governments set up overnight, like everything in nature when growth is forced, lack strong roots and ramifications. So they are destroyed in the first bad spell. This is inevitable unless those who have suddenly become princes are of such prowess that overnight they can learn how to preserve what fortune has suddenly tossed into their […]

“80% of what makes people successful is believing in yourself.  A lot of people don’t try because they’re afraid to fail.  Most people would rather follow than lead because it’s safer.  That way if it fails they can say, ‘It’s not my fault.  Wasn’t my idea.’  But if you don’t try, you can’t succeed.  I […]

“Whatever your job is, it’s your choice whether or not to let that define you…You define you: Your character, your values, your actions define you.” -Frederick Terrell Tweet

“The best executive is the one who had sense enough to pick good men [and women] to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” -Theodore Roosevelt Tweet

“‘Bloom where you’re planted, child,’ she used to say whenever I talked about all the things I was going to do when I got back home, back to the city, where we had all kinds of things- stores, TVs, indoor plumbing- that she didn’t have in the country. ‘Do what you can, with what you […]