If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
— Les Brown
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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A person who wants to lead the orchestra must turn their back on the crowd.
— Max Lucado
We all have activities or situations that we avoid because we’re afraid or feel uncomfortable. Those are the ones we need to tackle first and with gusto. Embrace discomfort and you will triumph with confidence.
— Corinn Price
Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.
— Henry Cloud
Unless you have definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.
— Zig Ziglar
Leadership has got nothing to do with figuring it out and everything to do with feeling it out. It is an awareness, and for so long in my businesses, I, too, was not aware. Leaders aren't born; they evolve. To evolve, you must first be self-aware.
— Troy Hazard
We all have differences. Not talking about it is not acceptable. Silence is not an approach that works: it's the conversations that really matter.
— Edith Cooper
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
— Albert Einstein
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
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
— Sarah Louise Delany
Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
— Jim Collins
If you want to be average, focus on the performance. If you want to be the best, focus on making practice harder than performance.
— Shane Parrish
There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses – only results.
— Ken Blanchard
Go into every relationship, whether business or personal, with your eyes open and willing to see people for who they are, not who others say they are. Form your own opinions...I truly believe this has helped me work with all different types of people.
— Kathi Farinacci
It is not sacrifice if you love what you’re doing.
— Mia Hamm
When you're leading a new team, honor the new team and its past, and then build them a bridge to the future. Too many leaders inherit a new team and want to share how much success they had in the past and how good their old organization or team was.
— Peter Barron Stark
It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change.
— Kenneth I. Chenault
Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making any dream come true. "I can’t" often means "I won’t." You can change "I won’t" to "I will" with willpower.
— Marcia Wieder
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
— Virginia Woolf
As a leader, you’ve got to live in three time zones simultaneously, the past, the present, and the future. Everything you do has got to honor the past, deliver in the present, set the table for a more prosperous future.
— Doug Conant
When I write a goal down – and I truly write them down – it becomes a part of me. That’s a contract that I sign with myself to say, "I don’t care what happens – I’m going to stay on this path. I’m going to give it my best shot, my best effort."
— Gail Devers
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.
— Johanne Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you're neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
— Desmond Tutu
When you’re not feeding your purpose, work feels like work. When you’re inspired, that’s where you get your energy.
— Steve White
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
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
— Kim Collins
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
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
— Nelson Mandela
I realized I was more convincing to myself and the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
— Ursula Burns
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.
— Barbara Bush
Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top.
— Maxime Lagacé
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