“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.” —John C. Maxwell
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” —Mother Teresa
“Nothing will work unless you do.” —Maya Angelou
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” —Arnold H. Glasow
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” —Ray Kroc
“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” —Orrin Woodward
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” —Jim Rohn
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”—Eleanor Roosevelt
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” —Henry Ford
“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
“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” —Steve Jobs
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” —Bill Bradley
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” —George Patton
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” —Bob Dylan
“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Thing big goals and win big success.” —David Joseph Schwartz
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” —Albert Einstein
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand
“Do or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” —Les Brown
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” —Plutarch
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” —Henry Ford
“Leadership is a choice, not a position.” —Stephen Covey
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
“Trying to do it all and expecting that it can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.”
“When you’re high on inspiration, you can get two weeks worth of work done in twenty-four hours.”
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
“Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people is everything – for better or for worse.”
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“Do the best until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
"A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“Doing less is not being lazy. Don’t give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.”
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
“Nothing is less productive than to make efficient what should not be done at all.”
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
“Never mistake motion for action.”
“What I lack in talent, I make up for my willingness to grind it out. That’s the secret of my life.”
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
When you are going through hard times, finding inspiration is tough.
Trust us when we say that everyone has been there – even successful people.