“Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”
—Maya Angelou
September 2011
60 posts
“Leadership is not an occasional task. It’s a way of being. Leadership is not a job or a title, but the set of micro actions we take every day. They add up. Leaders don’t just make an appearance to be able to say they were there. No, no, no. Leaders show up having dealt with their other obligations so they can be fully engaged — to participate, to co-create, to inspire. To lead.”
—Nilofer Merchant
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
—Jim Rohn
“Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.”
—Richard Friedman
“The reason that most of us are unhappy, most of the time, is that we set our goals-not for the person we’re going to be when we reach them-we set our goals for the person we are when we set them.”
—Dan Gilbert
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
—Cyril Northcote Parkinson
“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”
— Thoreau
“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
—Albert Einstein
“Don’t try to be interesting…be interested.”
—Peter Guber
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”
—Bhagavad Gita
“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.”
—Hans Margolius
“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
—Horace
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
—Abraham Lincoln
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
—Alfred North Whitehead
“Too many of us sit on the sidelines of fear and doubt, unable to contribute to a world in need of our brilliance.”
—Chris Guillebeau
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
—Lao-Tzu
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t wish it was easier; wish you were better.”
—Jim Rohn
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”
—David Bly
“All greatness in the world came about because someone did more than he had to do.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
