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Quotes about Taking Charge

    “The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.” ~ Seth Godin, Tribes

      “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours, it is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” ~ Bob Moawad

        “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” ~ Unknown

            “Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

              “True leaders are not those who strive to be first but those who are first to strive and who give their all for the success of the team.  True leaders are first to see the need, envision the plan, and empower the team for action.  By the strength of the leader’s commitment, the power of the team is unleashed.” ~ Unknown

                “There are thousands of excuses for every failure, but never a good reason.” ~ Mark Twain

                  “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~ Helen Keller

                    “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                      “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

                        “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

                          “…And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you’ve always got two choices.  One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.  Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.” ~ Neil Pasricha

                            “I’m convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It’s a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.” ~ Stephen Covey

                              “There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.” ~ Siren Kierkegaard

                                “If you hear a voice within you saying ‘You are not a painter,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh

                                  “Like the elephant, we are unconscious of our own strength. When it comes to understanding the power we have to make a difference in our own lives, we might as well be asleep. If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say.” ~ Keith Ellis

                                    “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~ Alan Curtis Kay