“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
It’s through one’s ability to motivate that a Non-profit Leader can Activate. Activate what? The written plans and internal passion they have for their cause, organization, or department. Where does this begin? With the self-talk and self-motivation of the leader. From there it’s important to be able to motivate and inspire others.
- Be they paid staff, Board members, unpaid volunteers. or large donors, those who have succeeded in both types of motivation will be the masters of their own destiny.
3 women have shared their thoughts on motivation on this blog. Twelve (12) quotes from our Leadership Keys posts should serve as good food for thought too.
“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
