These are some of our favourite quotes and passages that we’ve collected over the years that we find inspiring or remind us of the types of challenges we need to keep for ourselves to continue to strive for greatness.
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Managers say yes to innovation only if doing nothing is a bigger risk.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.
Someday isn’t a real day like Monday or Tuesday, it’s just another word for ‘never’.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
I never lose. I either win or learn.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You will then have to catch up with them.
The typical North American attention span is 6 minutes.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Dialogue is a process of genuine interaction through which human beings listen to each other deeply enough to be changed by what they learn.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Happiness is like a skill to be learned and practiced, not a character trait.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by product of that preparation.
It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Less isn’t more; just enough is more.
It’s only when you drop yesterday’s assumptions that you can glimpse tomorrow’s patterns and possibilities. To see deeper, unsee first.
Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy, and perseverance.
Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.
There’s nothing like setting a goal and accomplishing it. The road to achieve that goal is never straight. It has twists and turns, and at times you feel like you can’t pull it off. When you finally accomplish that goal, you feel a sense of accomplishment and self-worth that really can’t be beat.
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