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.
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.
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.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
No worries + no fear + no defeats = no life
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.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
The task of Leadership is not to put greatness into people but to elicit it. For the greatness is there already.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
On presenting to a crowd: It’s not about killing the butterflies in your stomach, it’s about getting them to fly in formation.
The absence of conflict is apathy, not harmony.
If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
Success comes in cans, not can’t’s.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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.
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
The typical North American attention span is 6 minutes.
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
An optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s a cha-cha.
Happiness is like a skill to be learned and practiced, not a character trait.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.
In a business world of nonstop change, there’s only one way to win the game: transform it entirely. This requires a revolution in thinking—a steady stream of disruptive strategies and unexpected solutions.
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