Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
Bill Drayton (Ashoka Founder)
A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
Ed Land, founder and president of Polaroid, inventor of instant photography
The traditional view of a leader as the one who sets direction, makes key decisions, and energizes the troops assumes people’s helplessness. In a learning organization, leaders are designers, teachers, and stewards….I’ve come to appreciate the difficulties and personal challenges (these roles) pose.
Peter Senge
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Bobby Kennedy
Submitted by SVP Partner Dick Cahoon
The will of a person committed to a larger goal is like “a cry from the soul which has been shaken and awakened.”
Kazumo Inamori
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Submitted by SVP Partner Heather Sherwin
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool, the use of which leads them to think differently.
Buckminster Fuller
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Submitted by SVP Partner Kevin Shaw
Commitment to the truth means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are.
Peter Senge
To become a leader, you must first become a human being.
Confucius
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert F. Kennedy
Social entrepreneurship needs to become a mass activity, not just the domain of inspirational mavericks … Entrepreneurship usually comes from teams, not heroic individuals. Social entrepreneurs thrive on interdependence, learning and borrowing resources from the public and private sectors.
Charles Leadbeater
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A little bit of good can turn into a whole lot of good when fueled by the commitment of a social entrepreneur.
Jeffery Skoll
The gaps between our vision and reality…can make a vision seem unrealistic … But the gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. The gap is creative tension.
Peter Senge
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
Theodore Hesburgh
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Submitted by Hilary Sparks-Roberts
CSVP Director of Partner Engagement
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Submitted by Linda Springer
CSVP Executive Director
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Submitted by Hilary Sparks-Roberts
CSVP Director of Partner Engagement
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakespeare
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
President James A. Garfield
Submitted by SVP Partner Kevin Shaw
