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“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Albert Einstein
“Don’t let other people’s music make your music toxic.”
John Mayer - musician
“When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.”
Samuel Johnson
“The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”
Charles R Swindoll
“We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.”
William Glasser
“Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.”
Robert C. Gallagher
“Change before you have to.”
Jack Welch
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
Bertolt Brecht
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe”
Abraham Lincoln
“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”
Albert Einstein
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot
of courage - to move in the opposite direction.”
E.F. Schumacher
“Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough”.
Anon
“Success builds character, failure reveals it.”
Dave Chekett
“I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great
and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each
honest worker.”
Helen Keller
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.”
Anon
“If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don't,
If you like to win, but you think you can't
It is almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!”
Walter D. Wintle – written 1905
“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
Vince Lombardi – Italian-American football coach
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
“He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted”
Lao Tzu, founder of Taoism
“You have to lose sight of the shore in order to discover new oceans.”
Anon
“The achievements of an organisation are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
Vince Lombardi
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day
before yesterday.”
Napolean Hill
“Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.”
Anon
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive
to change”
Charles Darwin
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than
to anything on which it is poured.”
Mark Twain
“My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of
course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.”
Jack Welch
“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”
Lee Iacocca
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
Peter Drucker
“It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.”
Anon
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Herman Cain
“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires
people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.”
David Ogilvy
“The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for
inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable”
Vince Lombardi – the legendary Green Bay Packers coach.
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
Henry Ford
“Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not
turn back nor did we falter.”
Barack Obama’s inauguration speech.
‘The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
John Maxwell
“Life is what happens to us while we are busy making plans.”
John Lennon
“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both
because it is so powerful and so rare.”
Patrick Lencioni
“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.”
Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
Bertrand Russell
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949
“The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.”
Author Unknown
“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
Lily Tomlin
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same”
Taken from the poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling
“You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.”
Harry Truman
“If you keep doing what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Anonymous
“The most tenacious block to new ideas is a limiting assumption.”
Nancy Kline
“Be the change you want to see in the world”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Life is a mystery – unfold it
Life is a struggle – face it
Life is beauty – praise it
Life is a puzzle – solve it
Life is opportunity – take it
Life is sorrowful – experience it
Life is a song – sing it
Life is a goal – achieve it
Life is a mission – fulfil it”
Anonymous
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
“Excellence is an act won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,but
rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
“Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.”
Paul Dickson