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.
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.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.
I have not failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.
Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
People don’t want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.
The first instinct in responding to this sudden economic crisis is to hunker down and wait for the storm to pass. That is the instinct, but acting on it would be a grave mistake. Our challenge today is radical transformation. Change at the margins will not do. The choice, it seems to me, is this: Reinvention or extinction. If we think it cannot happen to us, we ought to recall the fate of the Swiss watchmakers. Fabulous craftsmen, certainly, but the world has moved on, technologies have advanced, habits have shifted.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
It’s only when you drop yesterday’s assumptions that you can glimpse tomorrow’s patterns and possibilities. To see deeper, unsee first.
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
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.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
There are no old roads to new directions.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
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.
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.
There is no age attached to a student, that quest is without a number.
We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing, success will be yours.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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