“Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.”

“Clarity is the key to effective leadership. What are your goals?”

“The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people.”

“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” – Margaret Mitchell

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Charles Swindoll

“Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.” – Alan Watts

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

“When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.” – Blaise Pascal

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Life is a storm that will test you unceasingly. Don’t wait for calm waters that may not arrive. Derive purpose from resilience. Learn to sail the raging sea.” – Unknown

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss 

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” – Rick Riordan

“Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of the next one. Don’t hope for a life without problems. There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.” – Mark Manson

“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” –  Walter Hagen

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson

“You have just one life to live. It is yours. Own it, claim it, live it, do the best you can with it.” – Hillary Clinton

“Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

“In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein