Inspirational Leadership Quotes are designed to energize and aid you in your pursuits. They will cause you to look at yourself and the circumstances you encounter in a different light.
Knowing that "you can" is half the battle. Deciding that "you will" makes up the difference.
These Inspirational Leadership Quotes are from Denise Bissonette's work entitled "Beyond Traditional Job Development." She is an inspirational teacher and leader.
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"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Victor E. Frankel
"What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters when compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses." - Alphonse Karr
"We spend far too much time on the ground, unaware of the heights to which we can soar. Perhaps it's not what we are that holds us back, but what we think we aren't!" - Denise Bissonette
"Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer." - Anonymous
"Expect to find abundance and do not be discouraged or slowed by evidence to the contrary." - Denise Bissonnette
"We have tremendous power to control our destinies. We each have everything it takes to change our world." - Denise Bissonnette
"Opportunities come from knocking on doors until they open." - An Opportunist
"Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin." - Anonymous
"Some men go through a forest and see no firewood." - English Proverb
"As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search; you'll find what you desire." - Robert Browning
"Learning to ask new questions is the beginning of creating new opportunity." - Denise Bissonnette
"We know that if a goal is to be achieved, it must be embraced by the person him/herself." - Denise Bissonnette
"Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul." - Anonymous
"We can never exceed our own expectations." - Lao-Izu
"Many people adopt modest goals in an attempt to avoid disappointment. Unfortunately, low aspirations tend to be self-fulfilling."
"As we have learned from futile attempts to break down walls of resistance, the gates of change only open from the inside." Denise Bissonnette
"A different world cannot be build by indifferent people." - Anonymous
"When one senses that everything to be reaped from a particular endeavor has been reaped, it is time to move on to more fertile ground." - Denise Bissonnette
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." - John Maynard Keynes
"The road to success is always under construction." - Anonymous
"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities." - William Bridges
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