Asking for things we feel unqualified or unprepared for is understandably risky and scary, but if we tell ourselves no, we will never get to hear a yes.
— Angelina Darrisaw
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.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
— Albert Schweitzer
To add value to others, one must first value others
— John Maxwell
The message of the kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.
— Masaaki Imai
You can accomplish anything if you can prioritize ruthlessly and control your attention. Both of these have become particularly hard in the present age. As such those who can control these two critical factors will rule the world.
— The Ancient Stage
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
— Mary Kay Ash
Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person, not just an employee, are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled.
— Anne Mulcahy
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
— Oprah Winfrey
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
— William Arthur Ward
Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
— Albert Einstein
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
— Jackie Robinson
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
If you have the instinct to serve and the skills to succeed ... don’t separate these skills, integrate them. The future will be written by those who integrate their whole being.
— Robert F. Smith
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable.
— Denis Watley
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
— Benjamin Mays
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.
— Judy Garland
Never stop interviewing. The practice of interviewing helps you remain instantaneously marketable in any economy, even if you're not on the market.
— Mark Anthony Dyson
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
— Ralph Marston
People tend to trust you when they think they're interacting with the real you, when they have faith in your judgment and competence, and when they believe you care about them.
— Frances Frei and Anne Morriss
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically — to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘YES’ burning inside.
— Stephen Covey
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
— Albert Einstein
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
— Robert Cialdini
Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
— Patrick Lencioni
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait.
— Natalie Goldberg
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the think you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
— Charles F. Kettering
As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.
— Shawn Johnson
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
— Ken Blanchard
I believe 95 percent of achieving anything is knowing what you want. That's especially important for someone who is leading others.
— John Maxwell
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