Choice Quotes
Here are some of our favorite quotes on Leadership, Strategy, Organizational Change and Social Justice. If you’d like to add your own quote to the list, follow this link: your quote
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions.
Give light and people will find the way.
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.
If I didn’t believe it in my own mind, I never would have seen it.
In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and take a distanced view of close things.
That the birds of worry and care fly above your head, this you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be a part of your revolution.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than how it treats its children.
Progressive social change has often over-relied on trying to engage and mobilize people through facts, analysis, and critical thinking. While embracing the importance of intellect, transformational change equally engages the heart: our deepest aspirations, what we care most deeply about, what we love.
When human judgment and big data intersect, there are some funny things that happen.
Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate.
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.