These are some of our favourite quotes and passages that we’ve collected over the years that we find inspiring or remind us of the types of challenges we need to keep for ourselves to continue to strive for greatness.
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.
People don’t want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
No worries + no fear + no defeats = no life
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Someday isn’t a real day like Monday or Tuesday, it’s just another word for ‘never’.
You’re only given a small spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that, I learn from him.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.
Change is inevitable; growth is optional!
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
The biggest obstacle to learning something is the belief that you already know it.
The first instinct in responding to this sudden economic crisis is to hunker down and wait for the storm to pass. That is the instinct, but acting on it would be a grave mistake. Our challenge today is radical transformation. Change at the margins will not do. The choice, it seems to me, is this: Reinvention or extinction. If we think it cannot happen to us, we ought to recall the fate of the Swiss watchmakers. Fabulous craftsmen, certainly, but the world has moved on, technologies have advanced, habits have shifted.
Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by product of that preparation.
A fish doesn’t know it’s wet.
Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Mastery is a pursuit, not a destination, and, throughout its unfolding, is a reoccurring cycle of losing who we think we are in order to make room for who we are becoming.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing, success will be yours.
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