Library
Quotations
Affirmations

”So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we
summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
– Christopher Reeve

“Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“It may be those who do most, dream most.”
– Stephen B. Leacock

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.”
– James Allen

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I dream my painting and then paint my dream.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.”
– Unknown Author

“I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.”
– Walt Disney

“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate
accomplishments.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Anyone who seeks in his own occupation merely a means of earning money degrades it, but he that
sees in it a service to mankind ennobles both his labor and himself. ”
– A. Lawrence Lowell

“The leader’s unending responsibility must be to remove every detour; every barrier to ensure that vision
is first clear, then real.”
– Jack Welch

“I look on that man as happy who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for reply.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Dreams are the most powerful motivators of all.”
– Nick Thornely

“Learning organizations may be a tool not just for the evolution of organizations, but for the evolution of
intelligence.”
– Peter Senge

“Planning is as natural to the process of success as its absence is to the process of failure.”
– Robin Sieger

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
– Peter Drucker

“In modern organizational jargon, personal skills always precede professional skills.”
– Max DePree

“Everyone looks at the wrong end of the telescope, as if profits drive the business. Financial reporting
doesn’t get to the real stuff – employee morale, turnover, consumer satisfaction, on-time delivery,
customer attitudes, perceptions of the brand, purchase intentions – they drive financial results. I believe
that if you create an environment that your people identify with, that is responsive to their sense of values,
justice, fairness, ethics, compassion, and appreciation, they will help you be successful.
There is no guarantee – but I will stake all my chips on this vision.”
– Robert Haas, CEO of Levi Strauss

“You miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky, Hockey Great