Twitter didn’t invent the brief message; people have been saying important, useful, and even inspiring things in under 144 characters since humans started talking. Most, though not all, of these quotations are relevant to being a manager.
Abraham Lincoln: I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Albert Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Szent-Gyorgi: Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Annie Lennox: Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Darrell Royal: I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.
George Allen: Every day you waste is one you can never make up.
Henry David Thoreau: Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
James M. Barrie: The secret of success is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Jody Conradt: A good team member must have extraordinary communication skills, not just speaking but listening and seeing.
Joe Gibbs: The will to win is meaningless without the will to prepare!
John Wooden: Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden: Details create success.
Lao-Tzu: A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Larry Bird: First, master the fundamentals.
Lou Holtz: Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Pat Riley: Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Shannon Wilburn: Lack of confidence is born from a lack of preparation.
Thomas Edison: If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
Tommy Lasorda: Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
Vince Lombardi: Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi: We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Voltaire: Common sense is not so common.
Woody Allen: Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
What are some of your favorite quotations? We’d love to hear them.
--Wendy Caster
Wendy Caster is a writer specializing in finances, health and wellness, and organizational management.
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