Focusing on the future sets leaders apart. You have to be forward looking; it's the quality that most differentiates leaders from individual contributors.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
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.
If you have the instinct to serve and the skills to succeed ... don’t separate these skills, integrate them. The future will be written by those who integrate their whole being.
— Robert F. Smith
Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success – you will be empowered and you will achieve.
— Ursula Burns
Recognition is the most powerful currency you have, and it costs you nothing.
— James Kouzes
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
— Maya Angelou
Passion for a job doesn’t fuel an employee’s initiative; initiative fuels passion.
— Eric Chester
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
— Oprah Winfrey
If your actions inspired others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— Simon Sinek
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.
— Dale Carnegie
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
— Brian Tracy
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
— Zig Ziglar
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
— Steve Jobs
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
— C.S. Lewis
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.
— Don Zimmer
We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.
— Dr. Henry Link
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.
— Johanne Wolfgang Von Goethe
People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
— Rob Siltanen
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
— Will Rogers
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
— Walt Disney
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
— Maya Angelou
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
— Kenny Ausubel
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
— Betty Bender
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
— Barack Obama
Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.
— Babe Ruth
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden
You have to be odd to be number one.
— Theodor Seuss Geisel
You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well.
— Tim Cook
Achievable goals are the first step to self-improvement. Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
— Bill Gates
Sometimes a dream almost whispers… it never shouts. It's very hard to hear. So you have to, every day of your lives, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear.
— Stephen Spielberg
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance--and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
— Oprah Winfrey
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