Quotes to inspire
With your morning coffee or tea, when you are having a tough day or just to keep you on your way
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
ANNE FRANK
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
MARGARET MEAD
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
EPICTETUS
Social entrepreneurs identify resources where people only see problems. They view villagers as the solution, not as the passive beneficiary. They begin with the assumption of competence and unleash resources in the communities they are serving.
DAVID BORNSTEIN
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
CHINESE PROVERB
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
HELEN KELLER
Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
BILL DRAYTON
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
THOMAS A. EDISON
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
It always seems impossible, until it's done.
NELSON MANDELA
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
MAHATMA GANDHI
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
ARISTOTLE
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
ROSA PARKS
When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
LAO TZU
I failed my way to success
THOMAS EDISON
Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.
BIKRAM CHOUDHURY
Trust is the first step to love.
MUNSHI PREMCHAND
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDE
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
RALPH NADER
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
ERNEST SHACKLETON
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take,
WAYNE GRETZKY
By changing nothing, nothing changes.
TONY ROBBINS
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
MARK TWAIN
The key to good decision is not knowledge. It's understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
MALCOM GLADWELL
The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
TONY ROBBINS
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
JIM ROHN
Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
ELBERT HUBBARD
A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.
JOEL BARKER
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
MAYA ANGELOU
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU
You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?”
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ALBERT EINSTEIN
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
PABLO PICASSO
Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.
PETER DRUCKER
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love.
MOTHER TERESA
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
We become what we think about.
EARL NIGHTINGALE
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
CHARLES SWINDOLL
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
ARISTOTLE
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
MICHAEL JORDAN
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage
ANAIS NIN
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
ALICE WALKER
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
STEVE JOBS
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
MALCOM GLADWELL
The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
WENDELL BERRY
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
ELIE WIESEL
