Trailblazing Quotes

• Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

  Anne Sweeney

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

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• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Motivational, Leadership, People

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• My best successes came on the heels of failures.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Empowering

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2017

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• Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

  Sara Blakely

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Dream

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  If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Way, Firsts, Helping

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013

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• Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.

  Sara Blakely

  Inspirational, Female, Powerful Women

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• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

  Queen Victoria

  Leadership, Inspirational Life, Winning

  To A. J. Balfour, in 'Black Week', December 1899

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• You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

  Anita Roddick

  Leadership, Eye, Looks

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

  Anita Roddick

  Hero, Organization, Want

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• There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

  Amelia Earhart

  Leadership, Two, Hypocrisy

  Amelia Earhart (1928). “20 hrs. 40 min”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.

  Arianna Huffington

  Creativity, School, Opposites

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• Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

  Sara Blakely

  Female, Powerful Women, Empowering Women

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• You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

  Anita Roddick

  Leadership, Hero, Eye

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Being Yourself, Responsibility, Personal Accountability

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Hero, Roles

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• Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Being Yourself, Philosophy, Inspiration

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?

  Leah Busque

  Inspiring, Morning, Thinking

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• We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

  Mary Kay Ash

  People, Inspire, Honor

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• I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

  Amy Poehler

  Strong Women, Badass, Powerful

  "Amy Poehler Tells Katie Couric, "I Just Love Bossy Women!"". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  Faye Wattleton

  Leadership, Business, Storm

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