Quotes from Chris Brady

No guts, no story.

No guts, no story.

The only way to BE happy is to GIVE happy.

Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose.

It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.

You can't take your same old self into a bright new future. You would only darken it.

A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think.

No person is great in and of themselves; they must touch the lives of other great beings that will inspire them, lift them, and push them forward.

Mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

You don't know what you don't know. That's why you don't have. Because to know and not to have is not to know.

No one should ever go hungry, what with chewing ourselves out, eating crow and swallowing pride.

Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.

Being a leader is a study in managed frustration.

Leaders lead for the joy of creating something bigger than themselves.

To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.

Abraham Lincoln said, "Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it's the only thing.

Leadership is about doing the right things; management is about doing those things in the right way.

Life should be about purpose and meaning and cause and fulfilling our personal, God-given destinies.

Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.

Leadership is the influence of others in a productive, vision-driven direction and is done through the example, conviction, and character of the leader.

the more you stick to what is uniquely yours and the more authentic you are in what you do, the more interesting it is to others and the more marketable it is.

Remember that if what you're fighting for matters, the obstacles don't.

Wise leaders court hunger like a muse, and they summon her continuously. Complacency, arrogance, malevolence, apathy, and comfort can easily chase her away.

greatness polarizes. It attracts rabid fans on one side and just-as-rabid anti-fans on the other.