Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
— Stephen Covey
FIND a WAY to WIN at something EVERY DAY
It doesn’t have to be big. Some of the best days are made up of one or more small victories. Those incremental wins add up to meaningful change over time.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear.
— James Neil Hollingworth
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
— Reid Hoffman
If you do what’s right for the individual, you’ll have done what’s right for the company. A well-seasoned VP told me that many years ago when we were considering making some "non-traditional" organizational changes. I’ve always remembered it.
— Ramona Bilgram
Recognition is the most powerful currency you have, and it costs you nothing.
— James Kouzes
Every responsibility you get, make it a pocket of greatness. If you do that, you are more likely to die of indigestion from too much responsibility than starvation from too little.
— Jim Collins
The three most significant days in your life are: 1) The day you were born. 2) The day you find out why. 3) The day you discover how to contribute the gift you were born to give.
— Taylor Hartman
You have to be odd to be number one.
— Theodor Seuss Geisel
Leadership is an affair of the heart. Leaders love what they're doing and those they lead. Leaders make others feel great themselves and are gracious in showing their appreciation.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.
— Johanne Wolfgang Von Goethe
Through hard work and perseverance and obviously a few breaks and a few hand-ups — not handouts but hand-ups, which represent opportunity — I think the American dream is available to everyone.
— Steve White
Be spectacularly great at what you do. Wear your passion on your sleeve and hold your heart in the palm of your hand. And work hard. Really hard.
— Robin Sharma
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
— Marianne Williamson
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
— Albert Einstein
Most people, even those who find a calling early in life and never veer from it, have twists and turns in their road to success. It might look like they followed a straight line, but if you look more closely, you’ll see it was is actually crooked.
— Steve White
Our fight is what brings virtue, energy, and direction to your purpose for going through life. It’s what gives meaning to your why.
— Steve White
There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses – only results.
— Ken Blanchard
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— Mark Twain
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
— Oprah Winfrey
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
— Seth Godin
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
— Sarah Louise Delany
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
— Viktor Frankl
The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.
— Marc Andreessen
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
— Ken Blanchard
It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The more you can be authentic, the happier you're going to be, and life will work itself around that.
— Melinda Gates
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Before following the crowd, ask yourself if their average result is acceptable to you.
— James Pierce
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
— John C. Maxwell
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
— T.S. Elliot
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