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.
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.
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
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.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Most use technology to define the function. We use function to drive the technology.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
No worries + no fear + no defeats = no life
Pain is temporary. Glory is forever.
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.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Everyone has a plan… until they get hit.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
A fish doesn’t know it’s wet.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
There is no age attached to a student, that quest is without a number.
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.
There are no old roads to new directions.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
The typical North American attention span is 6 minutes.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.
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.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy, and perseverance.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
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