Hold yourself….

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.

– Henry W Beecher

Things….

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen

– JFK

Change…

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

– Barack Obama

Legacy….

Legacy is not built on what you could do but on what you actually do

– Anon

Our philosophy….

Our philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices we make and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility

– Eleanor Roosevelt

If you….

If you are interested in equality at all costs, you should never have gone looking for your power in the first place. Holding authority with integrity is more important than making others feel good

– Anne Hill

 

One of…

One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. You define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company; I think of myself as a steward of a great institution

–  Ginni Rometty,

Always….

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing

– Abraham Lincoln

Make a difference…

Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better

– Carlos Wallace

First principle….

First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.

– Marie Curie