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“What God and good luck provide we must accept with gratitude. Our time is our time. It’s up to us to make the most of it, make it amount to more than the sum of our days.”
John McCain, The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

“Leadership, like fertilizer, contains elements that can be volatile or nurturing, depending on how one handles them.”
Raymond M. Kethledge, Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude

“Praise and attention are fleeting, and then gone. The leader is left feeling empty unless she authentically connects her success with a more lasting purpose.”
Raymond M. Kethledge, Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude

“I kept thinking, ‘I’m not what they think I am. I don’t have all the answers. I’m not magic.’ But then you grow with it and you learn that it really doesn’t matter what other people think of you. You’re just one human being, and you’re doing the best you can.”
Robert Hilburn, Johnny Cash: The Life

“Lincoln had stepped outside his adversity, to study it within his own mind—and by doing so he drew boundaries around it. That allowed him to place the adversity in context, thereby restoring his perspective—and with it his emotional balance.”
Raymond M. Kethledge, Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude

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