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.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
I have not failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.
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.
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.
Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story.
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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.
Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You will then have to catch up with them.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME and up she grew so tall. She ate from a plate called TASTE ME and down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin’ at all.
Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
There are no old roads to new directions.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Practice hard. Wellness. Play with Abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Love as if this is all there is.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
We’re just in experimental phase right now. As long as we’re in that type of phase, it’s a crazy time. You know we’ll get there (profitability) and get there fast. But the ideas that are not out there yet, and the companies that will be behind them, might be the real winners.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
The task of Leadership is not to put greatness into people but to elicit it. For the greatness is there already.
We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
There is no age attached to a student, that quest is without a number.
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