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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.
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

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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