Top 54 Adam Braun Quotes
#1. Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.
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#2. There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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#3. When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.
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#4. When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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#5. When your faith is tested you simply have to believe that there will be light ahead and continue moving forward.
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#6. Most ventures fail in the early stages because people stop trying after they're told no too many times.
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#7. We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.
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#8. The biggest difference between the person who lives his or her dreams and the person who aspires is the decision to convert that first spark of motivation into immediate action.
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#10. True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
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#11. I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.
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#12. Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.
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#13. Speak the language of the person you want to become.
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#14. The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
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#15. We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
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#16. Most of all, I'll remind them each morning that we make a choice to bring positivity or negativity into the world, and that within every single person where lies an extraordinary story waiting to unfold.
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#17. Make your life a story worth telling,
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#18. It was only by focusing on creating joy in her life that I discovered the greatest feeling of happiness in my own.
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#19. Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest
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#20. They served as a constant reminder that to achieve exceptional things, you must hold yourself to exceptional standards, regardless of what others may think.
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#21. The purest joys are available to all of us, and they're unrelated to status, recognition, or material desires.
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#22. A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.
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#23. I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
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#24. Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts
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#25. What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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#26. For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.
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#27. But deep down inside, I was no longer enamored with the life I'd created. The only purpose I was serving was self-interest. While I rarely showed it to outsiders, my happiness waned day after day. A restless voice kept me up at night, telling me that until I found meaning, the money wouldn't matter.
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#28. In certain situations you ask to see a sign to guide you in the right direction. Sometimes these calls to a higher power are answered and sometimes we are left to seek counsel from within. But if you look for them, the signs will usually present themselves to those with open eyes.
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#29. I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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#30. I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.
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#31. At the greatest levels of affluence, and the deepest levels of poverty, parents share the same desire for their children to have a better future.
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#32. They chose to be different. And in doing so, they proved that through struggle, sacrifice and service, staggering personal transformation is possible.
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#33. Your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
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#34. You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.
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#35. So many of the people I admired - the musicians, the artists, the writers - created their greatest works not during a period of happiness and contentment, but during a period of struggle.
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#36. Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.
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#37. Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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#38. In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.
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#39. Sometimes you have to show someone that you're willing to run through a wall before they'll open the front door.
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#40. At certain moments in your life you just know that everything after will change. You can ignore these moments by not acting on the new set of possibilities they enable, and your life will stay the same. But if you say yes to their reverberating potential, your life path alters permanently.
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#41. Sometimes you have to leave things behind to understand their true value.
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#42. We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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#43. Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.
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#44. There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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#45. I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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#46. Adversity bonds people more often than it breaks them.
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#47. How many times have I missed an incredible connection that could have been made because I had my face in my phone instead of paying attention to those around me?
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#48. In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.
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#49. Creating a company means you're going to go through hell and high water along the way. You need to know the character of the people at your side. Trust is everything.
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#50. That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.
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#51. It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.
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#52. The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.
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#53. It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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#54. It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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