“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
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“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
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Variant: Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Source: Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Laozi in the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64
Misattributed, Chinese
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress
Variant: If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
In his letter to Theo, from The Hague, 22 October 1882, http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/11/237.htm <br class="br">1880s, 1882
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Not by van Gogh, but from Emile Zola's novel The Ladies' Paradise (1883)
Misattributed
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen (1898), p. 370 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435065322687?urlappend=%3Bseq=458: "If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie." Other versions of the saying were repeated in several of Hubbard's later writings.
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”
Mickey Mantle (1931–1995) Professional baseball player
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
Newt Gingrich (1943) Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives