"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."
Meister Eckhart
"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."
Les Brown
"Light tomorrow with today."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
Paulo Coelho
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
Peter Drucker
“…in the face of difficulty, we can despair, get angry … or choose POSSIBILITY…”
Rosamund Stone Zander
"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety."
Abraham Maslow
"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare."
Walt Disney
"You build your own strategy. You don't define it by what another competitor is doing."
Ginni Rometty
"Strategy is about making trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different."
Michael Porter
"A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world."
Atticus
"You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say."
Paulo Coelho
"Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure."
Bob Bitchin
"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."
Abraham Lincoln
"Compassion is language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
Napoleon Hill
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
Lao Tzu
"Strategy is thinking about a choice and choosing to stick with your thinking."
Jeroen De Flander
"In three minutes, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
Robert Frost
"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."
Michael Porter
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
Henry Ford
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
Mae West
"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
John Muir
"Everything you can imagine is real."
Pablo Picasso
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis
"Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman
"Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes."
Oscar Wilde
"Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions."
Henry Mintzberg
"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything."
Gordon A. Eadie
"Let go or be dragged."
Zen Proverb
"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."
Christopher Reeve
"The brain is wider than the sky."
Emily Dickinson
"If the world were blind, how many people would you impress?"
Boonaa Mohammed
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
Suzy Kassem
"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
T.S. Eliot
"Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
Orison Sweet Marden
"Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment."
Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Mohatma Gandhi
"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite."
Robert Half
"Amidst any chaos, any breakdown, any crumbling or changes, indeed something still is emerging."
Dr. Roger W. Teel
"There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
Nelson Mandela
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