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.
Misunderstanding and miscommunication can be tempered by the simplest acts most of us learned as children: listen well, choose your words with care and respect others.
— Edith Cooper
It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and another to hear.
— Henry David Thoreau
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.
— Brian Tracy
Leaders find success when they create teams composed of people who are experts in their areas and often smarter than the leader who's hiring them. Great leaders give them room to grow and innovate. These are the leaders who people want to work for.
— Tatiana Lyons
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
— Mae West
Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top.
— Maxime Lagacé
Surrounding yourself with people who are actively and enthusiastically working toward their best futures will keep you moving toward your own goals.
— Leah Busque
Effective leaders understand they are responsible for everyone they are leading and consider that responsibility as their main concern. If you ever lose empathy for and dedication to the people you are leading, you are not being a leader.
— Michael Talve
You make a difference. Before you lead, you have to believe that you can have a positive impact on others. When you believe you can make a difference, you position yourself to hear the call to lead.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
Your coworkers will relate to you and respect you more when you don’t hold your personality back. Don't let your buttoned-up facade override your vulnerability.
— Jackie Mitchell
Leadership is only a means, to what end is the real question.
— Peter Drucker
We have two lives . . . the life we learn with and the life we live after that.
— Bernard Malamud
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
— Jim Rohn
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
— Michelle Obama
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
— Martin Luther King
The art of leadership is saying no, not to say yes. It's very easy to say yes.
— Tony Blair
It is not sacrifice if you love what you’re doing.
— Mia Hamm
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
— Wilma Rudolph
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
— Steve Jobs
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
— Maya Angelou
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
— Napoleon Hill
Real leadership and growth emerge from our willingness to ask for help and give it. None of us gets very far alone.
— Laysha Ward
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
— Ken Kesey
Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
— Henry Cloud
A boss has the title, a leader has the people.
— Simon Sinek
Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.
— Jim Rohn
I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.
— Muhammad Yunus
Whatever you are, be a good one.
— William Thackeray
Leadership and learning are indispensible to eachother
— John F. Kennedy
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
— Napoleon Hill
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