To encourage a work ethic value, notice it in a specific action and call attention to it.
— Eric Chester
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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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
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
— Brian Tracy
The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
— Agha Hasan Abed
The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.
— Walt Disney
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
— Viktor Frankl
Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
— Sri Chinmoy
The more often a person feels without acting, the less they'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less they'll be able to feel.
— C.S. Lewis
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
— Herbert Swope
If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken.
— Brene Brown
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
— Robert Cialdini
Challenge is the crucible of greatness. Change invariably involves challenge, and challenge tests you. It brings you face-to-face with your level of commitment, your grittiness, and your values.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
The message of the kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.
— Masaaki Imai
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
— Samuel Johnson
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
Leadership is an affair of the heart. Leaders love what they're doing and those they lead. Leaders make others feel great themselves and are gracious in showing their appreciation.
— Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
— Warren Buffett
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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