8 Impactful Quotes-August 2025

These are some quotes from books, podcasts, and newsletters that were worthy of writing down. I hope you find them helpful.

-Cory

Trajectory

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
-Lao tzu

On True Love for Friends

is shown in our being filled with ambition for them. It means wanting them to be brave, while having ourselves the courage to help them to be so, instead of making ourselves their accomplices in retreat.
-Paul Tournier, Swiss writer

Ministry

The things that we do when we don’t think we are doing anything significant might make the most difference.
-Eugene Peterson

Leadership

There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.
Whether individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.
-Simon Sinek from “Start With Why”

Grace

Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation. God’s plan is not just for us to be saved by grace — it is for us to live by grace.
-John Ortberg from “The Me I Want to Be”

Hard vs Easy

”Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy.
Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder.
Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder.
Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder.
Easy has a cost."
-James Clear from his “3-2-1 newsletter”

Purpose

People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
-Simon Sinek

Success

”Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home."
-Will Ahmed, Founder of Whoop