There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
— Freya Stark
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.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
— Howard Thurman
Mirror Test: The way your employees treat your customers is a direct reflection of how you treat your employees.
— Eric Chester
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
— Brian Tracy
Truthfulness is the main element of character.
— Brian Tracy
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
— Oprah Winfrey
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
— Malcolm Gladwell
A person who asks is a fool for five minutes. A person who never asks is a fool for life.
— Chinese Proverb
Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.
— Babe Ruth
I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
— Thomas Alva Edison
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
— Robert Anthony
Learn as if you were to live forever.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
— Les Brown
Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They are there to let you know that something is worth it.
— C. JoyBell C.
The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.
— Indra Nooyi
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
— Jim Rohn
If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.
— H. James Harrington
I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
— Muhammad Ali
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
— Roy Disney
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence- only in constant improvement and constant change.
— Tom Peters
In teamwork, silence isn’t golden; it’s deadly.
— Mark Sanborn
How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
— Frederick Brooks
Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
— Jim Collins and Jerry Porra
Repeat the words, 'It's not about me!' every day, multiple times a day...Make leadership about the organization, serving others, and not taking yourself so darn seriously. You'll have people lining up to work with you, and the results will follow.
— Jeff Harmon
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk.
— Jane Kenyon
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
— James Allen
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
— William Arthur Ward
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
— Kahlil Gibran
If I had one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution.
— Albert Einstein
You can't do it alone. Leadership is a team sport, and you need to engage others in the cause. You need to enable others to be even better than they already are.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
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