Inspiration Archives | Mission Statement Builder

Benjamin Franklin

by Nick Ames | Feb 21, 2020 | Featured, Inspiration

Sometimes a mission statement can be a concise list of values defined in your own words—the approach Franklin used to guide his life toward greatness. Through study and reading, Franklin cultivated a list of 13 virtues he considered “necessary or desirable.”...

Amelia Earhart

by Nick Ames | Feb 21, 2020 | Featured, Inspiration

Earhart became captivated with flying while attending an aviation exhibition and enrolled in grueling training soon after. She became the 16th American woman to receive a pilot’s license and proceeded to break altitude, speed, and distance records. Earhart battled...

Helen Keller

by Nick Ames | Feb 21, 2020 | Featured, Inspiration

Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing at 19 months old, as the result of an unknown illness. To communicate with her family, she devised 60 signs in early childhood, but the arrival of teacher Anne Sullivan changed her life. She wrote, “My teacher placed my hand,...

Booker T. Washington

by Nick Ames | Feb 21, 2020 | Featured, Inspiration

Booker T. Washington was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1856. His life started amidst the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings. From an early age, Washington recognized the importance of education, comparing admittance...

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We can’t form effective relationships with others if we don’t know ourselves. Knowing yourself, your story, your mission, your values, and priorities—it’s a requisite to leading others.

Scott Miller

Greatness lies within each of us. In order to find it, we have to leap over paradigms that limit us and toward new paradigms that liberate us.

Todd Davis

If you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you give your life to?

Stephen R. Covey

Remember, it’s not what you say, but what you do that counts. As a leader, your behavior by default becomes the standard for everyone else. Not what you say.

Victoria Roos Olsson

The principle is simply this: We tend to get what we expect—both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.

Stephen M. R. Covey

Every child is born with unique gifts and talents. Be the one to untie the ribbons and open the package.

Muriel Summers

Competing priorities often prevent you from achieving extraordinary results. Redefine your current roles in terms of extraordinary results to achieve your mission.

Kory Kogan

Remember, life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession. A mission is a cause. A career asks, “What’s in it for me?” A mission asks, “How can I make a difference?”

Sean Covey

Once you’ve decided what to do, your biggest challenge is getting people to execute it at the level of excellence you need.

Chris McChesney

The thing I learned is that you don’t invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were.

Stephen R. Covey