Resources & Reflections
Here are some things I've read, heard and seen that have been useful and meaningful for me.
I hope you find some insights and inspiration here.
Recommended Reading
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Inspiration
"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader."
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- Dolly Parton
“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
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– Colin Powell
"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
- Brené Brown
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
- Michelle Obama
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”
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– Denis Waitley
“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.”
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– Zig Ziglar
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.”
– Simon Sinek
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”
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– Albert Einstein
“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
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― George Washington Carver
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
Theodore Roosevelt
In a society that profits from your insecurities, liking yourself is a rebellious act.
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Be gentle with the people you meet. Their outsides might not match their insides.
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