…. than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work
– William Arthur Ward
Tag Archives: Motivation
How do you…
… make sure you get the bubbling up of ideas through a coalition of energy, rather the boiling down that consensus inevitably provokes? It’s about eliminating all the ordinary, in-between stuff that is no good. You have to cut it out and concentrate all the energy on stretching for the best. Then the really good stuff acts as a magnet for more. If you allow middling stuff to stay – the filler stuff – then that works as a magnet for more of the same too
– Siobhan Davies
It is…
… not the mountain we conquer but ourselves
– Edmund Hillary
The ones…
….. who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves
– Mike Ditka
A person…
…. who never made a mistake never tried anything new
– Albert Einstein
There is always…
… much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like many others in life has it exceptions.
– Winston Churchill
If I am…
…not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
– Rabbi Hillel
One day…
…. Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don’t know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn’t matter.
– Lewis Carroll
Be a yardstick…
You have to…
… look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organisation.
– Anita Roddick
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