Inspiration

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Your brain – every brain – is a work in progress. It is “plastic.” From the day we’re born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

Michael Merzenich
Neuroscientist
Four things a man must learn to do if he would make his life more true: To think without confusion more clearly; To love his fellow-man sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and heaven securely.

John Wooden
UCLA Basketball Coach
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Nightengale
Nurse
Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.

Napoleon Hill
Author
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Sigmund Freud
Psychologist
Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu
Poet
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.

E.O. Wilson
Biologist
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden
UCLA Basketball Coach
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in that case you have failed by default.

J.K. Rowling
Author
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service and that bring friends with them.

W. Edwards Deming
Consultant
All my life I’ve seen that when people have freedom and a vision, when they have the courage and opportunity to work hard, and when people believe in the power of faith and hope, they can accomplish great things.

Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President
Life is now in session. Are you present?

B. Copeland
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Stephen Covey
Author
All great achievements require time.

Maya Angelou
Writer
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle
Philosopher
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Pablo Picasso
Painter
Failure doesn’t kill you....It increases your desire to make something happen.

Kevin Costner
Actor
I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

James Baldwin
Writer
Your limitations do no determine your destiny.

Harry Truman
33rd U.S. President
Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

Tony Fadell
Inventor