Don’t worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.
— Frank E. Peretti
FIND a WAY to WIN at something EVERY DAY
It doesn’t have to be big. Some of the best days are made up of one or more small victories. Those incremental wins add up to meaningful change over time.
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Don’t say it cannot be done, rather say, you don't know how to do it yet.
— Tomas Bata
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
— Aristotle
If you measure it, it will improve.
— Seth Godin
If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.
— H. James Harrington
Mirror Test: The way your employees treat your customers is a direct reflection of how you treat your employees.
— Eric Chester
A person who asks is a fool for five minutes. A person who never asks is a fool for life.
— Chinese Proverb
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
— Michael Jordan
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
— Shira Tehrani
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
— Betty Bender
The journey of success ends when we stop learning new things, because learning is oxygen—it keeps us going, even when it’s uncomfortable or painful, and it strengthens us for the challenges and opportunities that come as we pursue our fight.
— Steve White
When we feel urgency, we make room for hope. We allow for focus, and we are motivated by a larger goal.
— Steve White
Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
— Jim Collins and Jerry Porra
If you've created a culture where vulnerability is not okay, you've created a culture where innovation is also not okay.
— Brene Brown
The greatest enemy of learning is knowing.
— John Maxwell
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
— Phil Jackson
Most people naturally avoid conflict, so they won’t tell you what they really think unless you ask. Once you ask, they will tell you because you took away the conflict.
— Stephen King
To encourage a work ethic value, notice it in a specific action and call attention to it.
— Eric Chester
Truthfulness is the main element of character.
— Brian Tracy
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
— Albert Einstein
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically — to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘YES’ burning inside.
— Stephen Covey
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.
— Brian Tracy
Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
— Hannah Arendt
Management is tasked with moving an Army from point to point, while leadership moves an Army to where it never thought possible.
— Colin Powell
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
— Theodore H. White
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
— Maya Angelou
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
— Freya Stark
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
— Ralph Marston
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
— Marcus Aurelius
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
— John C. Maxwell
I never lose. I either win or learn.
— Nelson Mandela
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