How to Push Beyond Your Limits and Make the Impossible Possible The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke Most of us know what it feels like to stand at the edge of something unfamiliar and immediately begin listing Read more…
How to Achieve Your Dreams: The Lesson Behind A. P. J. Abdul Kalam’s Quote You have to dream before your dreams can come true. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Some quotes make us pause for a moment before we scroll on. Others quietly follow us through life, returning whenever we’re faced with uncertainty, failure, or Read more…
How to Overcome Criticism: What David Brinkley’s Quote Gets Right About Success A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley Most people can remember at least one remark that stayed with them far longer than it should have. It might have been Read more…
The Stories We Never Hear If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks. H. Jackson Brown Jr. A few years ago, I watched an interview with a business owner who had built a company worth millions. The conversation followed a familiar pattern. The interviewer wanted to know about the turning points, Read more…
Why Taking Risks in Life Often Matters More Than Winning Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. At first glance, this quote sounds motivational in the way many internet quotes do. Short. Clean. Easy to agree with. But the more you sit with it, the more Read more…
How to Develop a Growth Mindset: What Failure Really Teaches Us Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford There’s a strange thing about failure that no one really prepares you for. It doesn’t just disappoint you. It lingers. It sits in your mind longer than it should, replaying Read more…
Learning from Failure: Why It Matters More Than Celebrating Success When Bill Gates said, “It is fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure,” he wasn’t trying to sound profound for the sake of it. If anything, it feels like the kind of insight that only makes complete Read more…
The Ladder of Success Is Not as Simple as It Sounds The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Ayn Rand At first, the phrase ladder of success feels almost predictable. We’ve seen it before. It shows up in speeches, leadership seminars, and inspirational quotes about success. Yet when Read more…
When Desire Becomes Stronger Than Fear In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby At first glance, it sounds like one of those motivational lines you nod at and scroll past. But if you pause for a second — really pause — it starts to Read more…
Why the Way You Approach Life Often Matters More Than What Happens Our attitude towards life determines life’s attitude toward us. John N. Mitchell At first, this quote feels almost obvious. Pleasant, even. The kind of sentence you might nod along to and move past. But then—if you let it linger—it becomes slightly uncomfortable. Because Read more…
