“Here is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid, who will try to hold on to the shore. Know that the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore. Push off into the middle of the river, and keep our heads above water. And I say: see who is there with you and celebrate.” (Hopi Elder)

‘Human conversation is the most ancient and easiest way to cultivate the conditions for change. If we can sit together and talk about what’s important to us, we begin to come alive.’ (Margaret Wheatley)

‘Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.’ (Vaclav Havel)

‘Fear is the cheapest house in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.’ (Hafiz)

“Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.” (Jack Welch)

“What most of us fail to understand is that vulnerability is the cradle of the emotions and experiences that we crave. Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging and joy.” (Brené Brown)

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” (Theodore Roosevelt)

“People frequently avoid painful adjustments in their lives if they can postpone them, place the burden on somebody else, or call someone to the rescue. When fears and passions run high, people can become desperate as they look for authorities to answers.” (Heifetz & Linsky)

“Elke keer moeten we ons afvragen of we rechtvaardig zijn tegenover anderen. Zijn we niet te hard of hardvochtig. Als we spreken over beleid is de prangendste vraag: werken we voor het imago of proberen we iets te doen? To be someone or to do something.” (Herman Van Rompuy)

‘You are not going to teach Ronaldo how to take a free kick. I don’t coach football players, I coach football teams.’ (José Mourinho)

“Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.” (Angela Merkel)

 “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” (Rainer Maria Rilke)