“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.” – Michelle Obama

“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” – Phil Knight

“It’s not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney

“It’s very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” – Jonathan Ive

“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.” – N.R. Narayana

“Many companies get trapped by the paradox of hitting numbers ‘now’ versus improving sales for future quarters or years ahead.” – Tiffani Bova

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.” – Socrates

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T. S. Eliot

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Do not wait. The time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – George Hérbert

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence. It is to act with yesterday’s logic.” – Peter Drucker

“No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow if it doesn’t.” – James Cash Penney

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” – Ellen Glasgow

“It is impossible to progress without change, and those who do not change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein

“Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.” – Norman Mailer

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser

“Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi

“The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi

I hope you find these quotes inspiring!