50 Top Motivational Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals
Actions spring from thoughts -- the right thoughts.
Maybe you want to start a business. Maybe you want to change careers. Maybe you want to get fit, or gain a new path, or in some way take your life in a new direction.
To do that, sometimes all you need is a little push, a little nudge. A little burst of motivation and inspiration.
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Here are fifty of those nudges.
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- "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Walt Disney
- "Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote." Travis Kalanick
- "The question I ask myself almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'" Mark Zuckerberg
- "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." Chinese proverb
- "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." Florence Nightingale
- "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." Amelia Earhart
- "Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda
- "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover." Mark Twain
- "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao Tzu
- "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." Alice Walker
- "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon
- "Eighty percent of success is showing up." Woody Allen
- "Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." Farrah Gray
- "It is never too late to be what you might have been." George Eliot
- "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." Henry Ford
- "You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground." Unknown
- "Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." Joshua Marine
- "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." Booker T. Washington
- "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." Jim Rohn
- "Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy." Jimmy Spithill
- "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." Steve Jobs
- "The best revenge is massive success." Frank Sinatra
- "My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had -- every day I'm learning something new." Richard Branson
- "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou
- "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." Mark Twain
- "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin
- "There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." Aristotle
- "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." Teddy Roosevelt
- "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." George Addair
- "Fall seven times and stand up eight." Japanese proverb
- "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." Robert Frost
- "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." Stephen Covey
- "It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower." Paul Graham
- "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan
- "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." Albert Einstein
- "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it." Chinese proverb
- "You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." Maya Angelou
- "You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." Wayne Gretzky
- "It always seems impossible until it's done." Nelson Mandela
- "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." Confucius
- "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." Tony Robbins
- "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
- "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Beverly Sills
- "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." Booker T. Washington
- "Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." Vaibhav Shah
- "Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
- "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." Ayn Rand
- "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." Steve Jobs
- "Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success." Biz Stone
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How to Introduce Your Employees to Artificial Intelligence
'A.I.' is a booming buzzword, but some team members might be apprehensive about the technology. Here's how to ease its adoption in your workplace.
It's time to address the robot in the room.
Research shows that artificial intelligence has the power to transform workplaces--in one recent study, generative A.I. boosted worker productivity by 14 percent. But this technology carries a stigma: A higher share of Americans think it will hurt workers more than it will help, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.
That's why business leaders should introduce A.I. to employees strategically, training them on the technology's use case, benefits, and limitations. This can ease workplace apprehension around the buzzy tech and enable its smooth adoption.
Tiffany Rafii, CEO of the New York-based communications and digital marketing agency UpSpring PR, says she didn't want her team to feel like they were "cheating" if they started testing A.I. tools at work--so during a recent town hall, she encouraged her company to embrace the technology. "We need to understand the way these tools are integrated in our own systems and processes and how our clients can see value from them, from the perspective of being a valuable agency," she says. "I think closing the door on [A.I.] would be naive."
Several leaders who spoke with Inc. said that having open and constructive conversations with employees about A.I. can set forth a productive path to start incorporating the technology into everyday workflow. Here's how to introduce it to your team.
Offer use cases to make A.I. approachable
In late December, Dustin Schuler, president of Ridgefield, Washington-based marketing agency Schuler Digital, demonstrated to his team how to use ChatGPT to draft social media copy for clients and create personalized responses to product reviews.
He says the demo helped his team understand how A.I. could enhance, rather than replace, their work. Since then, Schuler Digital has incorporated Chat GPT in its workflow. An email marketing campaign that used to take the team 30 minutes now takes two or three minutes, tops. "We've been able to supply and scale out way quicker than we would have been able to before an A.I. tool like this," says Schuler.
Get feedback from employees
Encouraging employee input when introducing A.I. tools is crucial, Rafii adds, as workers across various departments might have different uses for the technology--for instance, someone on her social team could use A.I. to develop video reels, while a PR team member could use it to quickly transcribe information and provide speedier updates, she says.
Hafeezah Muhammad, CEO of the Baltimore-based pediatric mental health company Youme Healthcare, similarly invites employee feedback through a chat room. "Having an environment where people feel like their voice can be heard and creating a culture is key to getting through this new A.I. buzz," she says.
Make sure implications and risks are clear
Leaders shouldn't neglect crucial conversations about the legal and ethical best practices of A.I., says Andrew Pickett, owner of Andrew Pickett Law in Melbourne, Florida. Implications may differ by industry, but in the legal field, Pickett says that protecting client information is paramount. As a result, he created a formal set of rules for his team about using A.I. in their work, highlighting key data privacy regulations and security measures. Pickett's firm also provided training sessions on how to securely use the technology to ensure that every employee understood its risks.
In the digital marketing world, accuracy and plagiarism are the top concerns in using A.I. technology at work, adds Schuler. He communicated guidelines for the use of A.I. to his team, instructing them to proofread all copy generated with the help with ChatGPT. "It still has to have human interaction right now," he says. "It can't be fully autonomous."
Have an ongoing conversation
As A.I. technology evolves and new tools emerge, it's crucial to continually check in with your team on its use. "It's about leading the way and educating the staff from our perspective, but then also having them dialed into that conversation," Rafii says. She now expects to discuss A.I. at least once a month during team meetings and town halls.
Muhammad expects to devote 15 minutes of every biweekly staff meeting to discuss A.I. tools, during which department heads may present potential tools and provide updates on implementation. She believes this continued conversation will help her team to stay on top of the evolving technology: "An A.I. tool today, which might be the best tool for what you do, may not be the best tool in two weeks."
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