THE SUSTAINABLE AMBITION
WORKBOOK + PLANNER

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

PLANNING

• “You can do anything you set your mind to.” — Benjamin Franklin

• “A [person] who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” — Confucius

• “Things have roots and branches... If the root be in confusion, nothing will be well governed.” — Confucius

AMBITIONS

• “It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about?” — Henry David Thoreau

• “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J. R. R. Tolkien

• “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” — Mark Twain

• “Action expresses priorities.” — Gandhi

BUILDING RESILIENCE

• “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle

• “To thine own self be true.” — Shakespeare

• “Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality.” — Abraham Lincoln

• “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” ― Peter F. Drucker

PLAN YOUR TIME

• “You will find no one willing to share out his money; but to how many does each of us divide up his life! People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” — Seneca

• “If you don’t plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.” — Zig Ziglar

QUARTER PLANNING & TRACKING

• “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain

• “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

• “Without labor, nothing prospers.” — Sophocles

• “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” — Florence Nightingale

• “If there is no wind, row.” — Latin Proverb

• “The most effective way to do it is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart

• “Patience and persistence have a magical effect before which difficulties and obstacles vanish.” — John Quincy Adams

REVIEW & REFLECTION

• “Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.” — Baltasar Gracian

• “In moments of quiet reflection our minds embrace the sea that we have crossed.” — Holmes

• “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

WHAT’S NEXT

• “Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard

• “What’s next?” — The West Wing, inspiration here!