“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as impossible situations”
Chuck Swindoll
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
Malala Yousafzai
“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
– Stephen Covey
“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
– Indira Gandhi
“You can’t depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
“We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
J.K. Rowling
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow.
If we don’t grow, we are not really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
Gail Sheehy
See Early, See More, See Further
Link: Collaborations and Partnerships: My Non-profit Journey (Sofia Crisp)
“Each new stage of a non-profit organization’s growth requires, I feel, a strategic re-channeling of the organization’s energy. Quite simply, the startup vision which allowed the non-profit to take root, and emerge as a viable venture, can lose its impact once the organization is up and running. I’ve seen too many accomplished, visionary leaders taken ‘out of the game’ by underestimating the virtue of collaboration as they grow. Much like Shakepeare’s Julius Caesar, they have a character flaw which holds them back. As the funds for nonprofits continue to decrease, the need for partnering and collaborating has become a necessity”.
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,
or to get all the credit for doing it.”
—Andrew Carnegie
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.
Ecclesiastes 11:4 (New Living Translation)
Don’t confuse motion and progress.
A rocking horse keeps moving but doesn’t make any progress.
Alfred A. Montapert
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
– Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014), Poet/Writer/Civil Rights Activist
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back”.
—Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
