The Self Quotes
The ladder of leadership can only stand firm on the grounds of integrity. Any other ground makes it unstable till it falls.
Leaders don't venture without vision. They don't pray without plans. They don't climb without clues. They are always prepared.
Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.
Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.
Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.
Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.
By constant practices, deliberate repetitions and uninterrupted exercises, leaders go from zero to hero. They don't quit.
If you're determined to stand, nothing can move you. If you're determined to move, nothing can stop you. Determination is the key!
You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.
Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.
Learning from failure boosts a leader's chance of staying ahead of his standards. Leaders who rise quickly after falling are always stable.
A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do their job as he focuses.
Leaders scan the future so it can be free of doubts and fear. They do so by not living a double standard life in the present.
Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits.
Every great leader once fell down from a tall ladder. You don't become a star until you get the scar. Take that risk now.
Greed squeezes your dreams into a portable size, so that failure can easily carry them to dump somewhere.
Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die for yet, you can't lead.
Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly.
A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.
Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.
If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.
A little self-doubt is a good thing, " said Jia, "but not excessive doubt. Sometimes we live up to the stories others tell about us.
Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other’s backs — no matter what — so that everyone comes out future strong.
If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.
If you want to lead others into a strong future: You need to be keenly aware of how your own inner truths — biases, fears, courage, values and dreams — do or do not impact the daily work of others.
If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeatthat’s the real you.
Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same.
Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.
Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.
People should not have to sacrifice so much of their personal lives, hopes, dreams and goals just to keep up with corporate pressured morebetterfaster. And tomorrow’s workforce won’t.
Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds.
Working for a company must help individuals achieve their dreams and goals more efficiently and effectively than they could achieve them elsewhere.
Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.
Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.
The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing — your call to adventure — is your best tool in that battle.
Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker.
Future shackled is when tomorrow is anchored, boxed and managed to maximize the minimizing of uncertainty.
The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.
Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.
The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over.
Instead of getting the leaders we deserve, we can an abundance of ShitRollsDownhill Shovelers, ShitCatchers, and NewShitCreators.
We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's.
Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers.
Far too much corporate stupidity is disguised as cost-saving efficiencies.
Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.
Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.
Before tomorrow becomes your legacy, come the choices you must make today.