Jeffrey Fry inspires through reflections on leadership, persistence, and personal development. His writings motivate readers to embrace resilience, cultivate self-awareness, and pursue goals with dedication and courage. Fry emphasizes the power of action, persistence, and self-confidence, encouraging individuals to grow through experience and reflection. His insights highlight the importance of personal responsibility and the transformative potential of determination. Fry's work empowers others to achieve meaningful success, navigate challenges with integrity, and foster a life of purpose and impact.
"Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness."
"A leader is the one who is pulling the sled hardest."
"True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself."
"The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking."
"Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and improvement."
"Associating with winners may not make you a winner, but associating with losers will definitely not make you one."
"What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated."
"Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened."
"Winners have no interest or association in the opinions, actions or affairs of losers."
"Sometimes life seems a dark tunnel with no light at the end, but if you just keep moving forward, you will end up in a better place."
"There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure."
"To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom."
"People are usually more interested in what is new, rather than what is better."
"Eating humble pie is not very enjoyable, and it is even less so eating it alone."
"Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution."
"The mind is the master of the soul, and the soul is the master of your universe. Learn to master your mind."
"Unless you learn to lead, you will always be at the mercy of someone else to guide you."
"Most people fail not necessarily because who they are, but whom they are with."
"The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control."
"Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success."
"Music is often the spark that lights the fire of the soul."
"A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one."
"From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything."
"Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do."
"If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best."
"Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary."
"Entrepreneurship does not build character, it reveals character."
"Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway."
"I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully."
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and always will solve the problems of the human race and divide those who achieve from those who might have been."
"You will never be alone if you like the person you are with when you are by yourself."
"Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist."
"No matter how much we think about something, in the end, the decision is made on how we feel."
"The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones."
"There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally."
"You can never be happy unless you learn to love yourself."
"Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness."
"Only those who can see the invisible, can do the impossible."
"Great relationships do not depend on who you find, they depend on who you are."
"In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order."
"Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness."