You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
— Nancy D. Solomon
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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If you want to do a good deed, do it now. The time will pass, and you will not have the chance again.
— Leo Tolstoy
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
— Billie Jean King
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
— Maya Angelou
Over a decade of experience as a clinical psychologist and leadership consultant has taught me that burnout prevention requires reducing workplace stress while increasing employee engagement.
— Natalia Peart
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
— Zig Ziglar
Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
— Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
See yourself as a piece of Swiss cheese--know your holes and add others (slices) whose substance, when layered on your slice, eventually creates a solid, firm unified block of cheese.
— Richard Avdoian
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
— Ralph Marston
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
— Wayne Dyer
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
— John Wooden
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
Nearly all people can stand adversity, but if you want to test a person's character, give them power.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.
— Judy Garland
If I cannot do great things. I can do small things in a great way.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
You have to be authentic, you have to be true, and you have to believe in your heart.
— Howard Schultz
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When times get tough, we don't give up, we get up.
— Barack Obama
Through hard work and perseverance and obviously a few breaks and a few hand-ups — not handouts but hand-ups, which represent opportunity — I think the American dream is available to everyone.
— Steve White
If you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get the right answers. A question asked the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis.
— Edward Hodnett
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
— Mae West
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
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