Bill Strickland > Quotes

“The sand in the hourglass flows only one way. Don’t waste precious time chasing someone else’s definition of success. Live your life with purpose now. Look for the things that inspire you, trouble you, make you feel most alive, and trust in those things to shape your future. They will give you all your heart could ever wish for.”
― bill strickland

“Trust your passion, identify your dreams, and find the courage to share them with others, no matter how many times they call you a fool.”
― Bill Strickland, Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary

“What we discovered was that the only thing wrong with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be a curable condition.”
― Bill Strickland

“Commit yourself to a passion that moves you.”
― Bill Strickland, Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary

“I found out that fear ends, and that when you emerge from the other side, you're not a courageous person. You're just unafraid.”
― Bill Strickland, Ten Points

“Most of the white kids in my classes had grown up in stable neighborhoods and had graduated from good schools. They came to Pitt with a natural confidence and expectations of high achievement, and it was clear to me from the very start that they had been prepared, in ways that were beyond me, to make their dreams come true.”
― Bill Strickland, Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary

“The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.” —Sloan Wilson”
― Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist