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I’ve Already Failed (CtbG Y4:E1)

January 4, 2026 ~ Angelo DelliSanti ~ Leave a comment

If you're anything like me, you've already failed, too.

Reflecting On “The Final Stretch” (CtbG Y3:E33)

May 19, 2025May 19, 2025 ~ Angelo DelliSanti ~ Leave a comment

As you push through The Final Stretch, remember that you’re having a continuous impact on everyone around you. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t be a leader.

10 Behaviors to Finish Strong (CtbG Y3:E32)

May 12, 2025May 12, 2025 ~ Angelo DelliSanti ~ Leave a comment

In these final weeks, focus on controlling the controllables. That’s how you finish strong.

Make Teacher Appreciation Week Personal (CtbG Y3:E31)

May 5, 2025 ~ Angelo DelliSanti ~ Leave a comment

More than they need your gifts, teachers need your words.

The Final Stretch (CtbG Y3:E30)

April 28, 2025April 28, 2025 ~ Angelo DelliSanti ~ Leave a comment

As you round the final corner of the school year, I just wanted to provide a few thoughts to help you and your team finish strong.

“Better.” (CtbG Y3:E29)

April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 ~ Angelo DelliSanti ~ Leave a comment

It’s not always clear where the road leads, but if we keep choosing “better” – even in the smallest ways – we’ll find ourselves becoming exactly who we’re meant to be.

Lighting Candles in the Darkness (CtbG Y3:E28)

April 7, 2025 ~ Angelo DelliSanti ~ Leave a comment

What can any of us do to light a candle in the darkness?

#BeGood (CtbG Y3:E27)

March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 ~ Angelo DelliSanti ~ Leave a comment

There is no greatness to be found apart from goodness.

Want Better Results? Fix the System! (CtbG Y3:E26)

March 23, 2025 ~ Angelo DelliSanti ~ Leave a comment

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

Is It Spring Break Yet? (CtbG Y3:E25)

March 10, 2025 ~ Angelo DelliSanti ~ Leave a comment

Sydney Harris, the longtime Chicago journalist, offers us a reminder about rest that isn’t necessarily tied to spring break.

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The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Anne Frank

Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.

Robin S. Sharma

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Les Brown

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

James Buchanon

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Fredrick Douglas

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

You can only become great at that thing you’re willing to sacrifice for.

Maya Angelou

The starting place for your greatness is desire. The desire to succeed, to serve others, to keep on going no matter what.

Assegid Habtewold

There will never be 'the right time' in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.

John A. Passaro

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

Steve Maraboli

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Marianne Williamson

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

Afrika Bambaataa

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Martin Luther King Jr.

If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

Theodore Roosevelt

Greatness is a lot of small things done well.

Eric Thomas

Surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself!

Zig Ziglar

People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.

Walt Disney

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.

Vince Lombardi

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