Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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.
You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
— Jim Rohn
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
I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
— Muhammad Ali
It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
— Roy Disney
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence- only in constant improvement and constant change.
— Tom Peters
In teamwork, silence isn’t golden; it’s deadly.
— Mark Sanborn
How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
— Frederick Brooks
Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
— Jim Collins and Jerry Porra
Repeat the words, 'It's not about me!' every day, multiple times a day...Make leadership about the organization, serving others, and not taking yourself so darn seriously. You'll have people lining up to work with you, and the results will follow.
— Jeff Harmon
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk.
— Jane Kenyon
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
— James Allen
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
— William Arthur Ward
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
— Kahlil Gibran
If I had one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution.
— Albert Einstein
You can't do it alone. Leadership is a team sport, and you need to engage others in the cause. You need to enable others to be even better than they already are.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can--there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
— Sarah Caldwell
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
— Lao Tzu
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If I cannot do great things. I can do small things in a great way.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
— William Ellery Channing
Leadership: The capacity and will to rally people to a common purpose together with the character that inspires confidence and trust.
— Bernard Montgomery
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.
— Michael Porter
Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
— Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.
— Himanshu Bhatia
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
— Joseph Campbell
It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life; it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
Fall seven times; stand up eight.
— Japanese Proverb
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
— Herman Melville
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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