Success is often the result of having the foresight to take one more step
– Unknown
Tag Archives: conviction
Don’t aim…
Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it
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There comes…
There comes a point where one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but we must do it because our conscience tells us it is right
– MLK
There…
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but we must do it because our conscience tells us it is right
– Martin Luther King
Trail blazing…
Trail blazing is an art-form. It is how we find paths through what before was wilderness. We push aside branches or cut them back, we tramp down nettles and long grasses, ford rivers and streams, through the inner and outer landscapes.
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Leaders…
Leaders must pick causes they won’t abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
You have…
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.
– Steve Jobs
There has to be…
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage and the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile; especially when it is new and different.
– Alfred P. Sloan
Who…
Who succeeds in forming and leading a great group? They are almost always a pragmatic dreamers. They are people who get things done and they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
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We must…
We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there
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