The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
— Walt Disney
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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Focusing on our differences is easy and divisive; leveraging what we have in common is harder but will effect positive change for all.
— Edith Cooper
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
Trust rules. To enlist others, you need trust. Build mutual trust; you must trust others too.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
— Napoleon Hill
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
— Billie Jean King
Leaders must have vision, creativity, and the ability to influence others to follow and support them into uncharted and often risky territory.
— Nick Venturella
The person you throw under the bus today could be driving it tomorrow.
— Glenn Shepard
You have to be odd to be number one.
— Theodor Seuss Geisel
Every responsibility you get, make it a pocket of greatness. If you do that, you are more likely to die of indigestion from too much responsibility than starvation from too little.
— Jim Collins
Leadership: The capacity and will to rally people to a common purpose together with the character that inspires confidence and trust.
— Bernard Montgomery
Before you say you can't do something, try it.
— Sakichi Toyoda
Being American is more than a pride we inherit; it's the past we step into and how we repair it.
— Amanda Gorman
How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
— Frederick Brooks
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
— Ken Blanchard
It's teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage. Both because it's so powerful and so rare.
— Patrick Lencioni
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The future promises only one thing: uncertainty. New challenges we face are going to make the old challenges look like a walk in the park. Hire someone to grow into those challenges with you.
— Anthony Iannarino
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
— Edward Everett Hale
If we hope to achieve racial equality in this country, we need leaders who are authentic, committed, and engaged; leaders from all different realms who use their voices and platforms to effect systemic change.
— Jason Wingard
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to list to the needs of others.
— Douglas MacArthur
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
— Elon Musk
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
— Peter Drucker
When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or you take them with gratitude.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
— Rosa Parks
I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.
— Muhammad Yunus
You either lead by example or you don't lead at all. You have to go first as a leader. That's what it takes to get others to follow your lead.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
It's fine to celebrate success but it's more important to heed the lessons of failure
— Bill Gates
Great leaders never stop clarifying expectations, and they never stop mentoring.
— Eric Chester
Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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