Want to start the year on a high note. Here are 50 quotes to kick off the Year:
- The temptation to fix the past is nearly irresistible but futile, nevertheless. ~Dan Rockwell
- When you have passion, you will not back up when you get knocked down –and you will get knocked down — over and over again. That’s what winning is all about. ~Elizabeth Holmes
- The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hall-mark of the growth mindset. ~Carol Dweck
- Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead
- Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, and working together is success. ~Henry Ford
- I don’t follow trends or try to compete with anyone. Everything I do stems from following my passion.” ~Guo Pei
- What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying? ~Jacqueline Novogratz
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Fear stifles our thinking and actions. ~Charles Stanley
- Do one thing everyday that scares you. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
- Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. ~Eddie Rickenbacker
- Creativity takes courage. ~Henri Matisse
- The greatest originals are the ones that fail the most because they are the ones who try the most. ~Adam Grant
- You can accomplish anything in life, provided you don’t mind who gets the credit. ~Harry S. Truman
- With leadership anything is possible and without it nothing is possible. ~Paul O’Neill
- The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. ~Harvey Firestone
- The minute a leader allows himself to be the primary reality people worry about rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity or worse. ~Carol Dweck
- The most effective executives understand that their decisions & actions once incorporated into the business are made obsolete by events or changing conditions. ~Peter Drucker
- The goal of many leaders is to get people to think more highly of the leader. The goal of a great leader is to help people to think more highly of themselves. ~J. Carla Northcutt
- People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Leadership begins with the heart, not the head. It flourishes with a meaningful relationship, not more regulation. ~John Maxwell
- The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. ~Mary Ann Evans
- What keeps me going is my goals. ~Muhammad Ali
- Unless you translate big thoughts into concrete steps for action, they are pointless. ~Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
- An idea without action is like a bow without an arrow. ~Martin Luther King Jr.
- While you can spend years of your life preparing and making plans, nothing can compare to lessons learned while actually doing. ~Robyn Sue Fisher
- A strong culture is a group of people who care about each other, not care about the results first, that’s actually a weak culture. ~Simon Sinek
- Many of the barriers to effective collaboration arise from unshared, unexamined, unproved assumptions. ~Tom Poppendieck
- We cannot change past events; we can only change the impact that the past events have had on us. ~Virginia Satir
- Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes. ~Amy Cuddy
- I can’t go back to yesterday — because I was a different person then. ~Lewis Carroll
- Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ~Rumi
- I know it’s infuriating when people offer insanely naïve solutions to our suffering.” ~Charles M. Blow
- If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve the ship, they would keep it in port forever. ~ Thomas Aquinas
- He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. ~Chinese proverb
- My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. ~Peter Drucker
- It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. ~Brian Tracy
- The idea that I want to please everybody means that I have nothing to offer. -Peter Block
- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~Alvin Toffler
- Innovation is not about solo genius, it’s about collective genius. ~Linda Hill
- It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. ~Mark Twain
- A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali
- There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ~Peter Drucker
- Doing the wrong thing right is not nearly as good as doing the right thing wrong. ~Russell Ackoff
- The system is not the sum of the behaviors of its parts, it’s the product of their interactions. ~Russell Ackoff
- Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. ~Stephen R. Covey
- It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? ~Henry David Thoreau
- A bad system, will defeat a good person, every time. ~W. Edwards Deming
- Learning how to learn is probably the most important thing an organization or individual can learn. ~Russell Ackoff
- Managers who don’t know how to measure what they want, settle for wanting what they can measure. ~Russell Ackoff
- If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ~Albert Einstein
What’s your favorite quote?
