A life spent chasing the mythical state of being able to do everything is less meaningful than a life of focusing on a few things that count.

Oliver Burkeman

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Voltaire

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all

Emily Dickinson

Wanneer zullen we leren, dat het doel van dit aardse leven niet ligt in voorspoed en welvaart, maar in de ontwikkeling van de ziel!?

Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn

Do a little bit of good where you are;
it's those little bits put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

This is the month, and this the happy morn

Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King

Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born

Our great redemption from above did bring

….

That he our deadly forfeit should release

And with his Father work us a perpetual peace.

John Milton

People need to know how their job contributes.

W. Edwards Deming

When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

Patrick Lencioni

Once you realize that people are primarily desiring creatures, not rational creatures, you realize that one of the great projects of schooling and culture is to educate the passions.

David Hume

Waarachtig het goede willen is hieraan te herkennen: dat je het wilt zonder beloning.

Søren Kierkegaard

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

Bill Copeland

Stil worden is geen lome lust, het is ook een beweging. Het is de innerlijke beweging van je hart.

Søren Kierkegaard

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Wayne Dyer

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

Francis Chan

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Jane Smiley

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

To retain the trust of those who are present, be loyalty to those who are absent.

Stephen R. Covey

Values are usually well-written and widely communicated - and are significant source of frustration. Why? Because it is a rare company today in which people practice the values their organisations preaches.

Douglas McGregor

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

Some people are so good at learning the tricks of the trade that they never get to learn the trade.

Sam Levenson

It could be said of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other men’s flowers, providing of my own only the string that ties them together.

Montaigne

You cannot 'motivate' someone.

John Seddon

The answer to the question – 'How do you motivate people?' – is – 'You don’t.

Douglas McGregor

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

Alfie Kohn

Bekijk je je leven als geheel, met alle talloze beslissingen die je neemt, dan ben je levenslang bezig deze kern langzaam te veranderen in een hels of in een hemels wezen.

C.S. Lewis

The mediocre
teacher tells.

The good
teacher explains.

The superior
teacher demonstrates.

The great
teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

Russel L. Ackoff

Créer, c'est vivre deux fois.

Albert Camus

The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.

Jim Rohn

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Roll May

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

Clayton M. Christensen

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

B.F. Skinner

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

Winston Churchill

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Bruce Springsteen

In a learning organisation, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. That is, they are responsible for learning.

Peter Senge

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

Carl Rogers

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

Tariq Ramadan

Alle leren begint met één simpele constatering: ik weet het niet.

Manon Ruijters

The capacity to learn is a gift, the ability to learn is a skill, the willingness to learn is a choice.

Brian Herbert

I love to learn but i hate to be taught.

Winston Churchill

Benader iemand zoals hij is en hij zal zo blijven, benader hem zoals hij kan worden en hij kan zo worden.

vrij vertaald naar Goethe door Jan Bergman

The answer to the question – How do you motivate people? – is – You don’t.

Douglas McGregor

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.

John Holt

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jin Ryun

Als je nooit bang bent, kun je ook niet dapper zijn.

Pippi Langkous

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

Rick Warren

Compensation is a right, recognition is a gift.

Rosabeth Kanter