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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The absence of conflict is apathy, not harmony.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
I never lose. I either win or learn.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.
Do not attempt to walk through life without a dream, without a hope, without a goal to achieve success.
We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.
One has to passionately believe it is possible to change the industry, to turn it on its head, to make sure that it will never be the same again.
Less isn’t more; just enough is more.
Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen.
Mastery is a pursuit, not a destination, and, throughout its unfolding, is a reoccurring cycle of losing who we think we are in order to make room for who we are becoming.
The biggest obstacle to learning something is the belief that you already know it.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
The typical North American attention span is 6 minutes.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Dialogue is a process of genuine interaction through which human beings listen to each other deeply enough to be changed by what they learn.
Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
No worries + no fear + no defeats = no life
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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