June 25, 2024
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
June 24, 2024
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
June 23, 2024
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.
June 22, 2024
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable.
June 21, 2024
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
June 20, 2024
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
June 19, 2024
Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.
June 18, 2024
Never stop interviewing. The practice of interviewing helps you remain instantaneously marketable in any economy, even if you're not on the market.
June 17, 2024
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
June 16, 2024
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
June 15, 2024
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.
June 14, 2024
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
June 13, 2024
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
June 12, 2024
Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
June 11, 2024
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait.
June 10, 2024
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.
June 9, 2024
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.
June 8, 2024
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.
June 7, 2024
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
June 6, 2024
I believe 95 percent of achieving anything is knowing what you want. That's especially important for someone who is leading others.
June 5, 2024
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
June 4, 2024
Leaders with character are highly effective. They have no need to pull rank or resort to "command and control" to get results. Instead, they're effective because they're knowledgeable, admired, trusted, and respected.
June 3, 2024
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
June 2, 2024
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
June 1, 2024
You can’t be a good leader without self-awareness. It lies at the root of strong character, giving us the ability to lead with a sense of purpose, authenticity, openness, and trust.
May 31, 2024
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
May 30, 2024
Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else.
May 29, 2024
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
May 28, 2024
Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain
May 27, 2024
Achievable goals are the first step to self-improvement. Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
