Cheryl > Cheryl's Quotes

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
― maya angelou

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Groucho Marx

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
― Lewis Carroll

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
― Coco Chanel

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.

I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
― Tom Waits

“I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.”
― John Barrowman

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”
― Steve Jobs

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
― John Maxwell

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― George S. Patton

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
― Woodrow Wilson

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

“A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.”
― David Foster Wallace

“No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited.”
― Tom Northup

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”
― Theodore M. Hesburgh

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.”
― Orrin Woodward

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
― Jack Welch

“True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.”
― J.Oswald Sanders

“A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.”
― Jacob Kaye

“The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.”
― Marcus Buckingham