Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

In the long run, it's impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle

There's always going to be setbacks.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads.

The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away.

Obstacles don't have to stop you.

I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!

Failure was a key element to my life’s journey.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Every path hath a puddle.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.

When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course