(Subtitled: Remember, nothing is easy, and if you don’t decide to make a difference, nothing will be different.)

“Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence.”
― Tomislav Šola

“Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.”
― Ron Suskind

“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”
― Henry Kissinger

“Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.”
― Julius Erving

“We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because … it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
― Sir Winston Churchill