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• The magnitude of your success and fulfillment will be in direct proportion to how far ahead you consider the consequences of your actions.
• The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
  William Lyon Phelps
• The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them. –
  David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big
• When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakeas learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turndown of the performer.
  Dennis Waitley
• The dog that fetches will also carry. (Translation: If someone reveals another's secrets to you, the same person will reveal your secrets to the world.) -
  Latin proverb
• Do or do not. There is no try.
  Yoda
• "The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving."
  Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Theodore Roosevelt said Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are. This is great advice.
  Brian Tracy
• "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
  Leo Tolstoy
• "Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it."
  La Rochefoucauld
• Timing is everything. There is a tide in the affairs of men which when taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
  William Shakespeare
• "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to into the impossible."
  Anthony Robbins
• "Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness."
  May Sarton
• Listening is very inexpensive; not listening could be very costly!
  Tom Brewer
• "The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving."
  Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "If you talk about it, it is a dream,
  If you envision it, you gain excitement,
  If you plan it, it is possible,
  If you schedule it, it becomes reality"
  "The past does NOT equal the future!"
  "Repetition is the mother of skill"
  "It is the moment of our decisions that our destinies are created"
  Anthony Robbins
• Marketing is merely a civilized form of warfare in which most battles are won with words, ideas and disciplined thinking.
  Albert Emery
• Think about your goals at every opportunity throughout the day.
  Brian Tracy
• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily.
  Zig Ziglar
• Plan your work and work your plan.
  Napoloen Hill

• The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result.
  Albert Einstein
• If you change your thinking, you change your life.
  Brian Tracy
• "He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail."
  Abraham Maslow
• F.E.A.R. = False Evidence Appearing Real
  Anthony Robbins
• Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by the crowd.
  Marliyn Manson
• You have great, untapped reserves of potential within you. Your job is to release them.
  Brian Tracy
• "We see things not as they are, but as we are."
  Henry Major Tomlinson

• If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.
  Brian Tracy
• Every accomplishment begins with a decision to try.
  Edward T. Kelly
• Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
  Walter Landor
• "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
  Oscar Wilde
• To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.
  Peter McWilliams
• To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
  Deepak Chopra
• "Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
  enough to cover."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson {1803-1882 American Poet & Essayist}
• Practice creative abandonment of time consuming activities that are not longer of importance  to you.
  Brian Tracy
• "You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you
  bring to the hour."
  Jim Rohn
• "Win-win agreements are tremendously liberating. But as the product of isolated techniques, they won't hold up. Even if you set them up in the beginning, there is no way to maintain them without personal integrity and a relationship of trust."
  Stephen R. Covey
• What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?
  Vincent Van Gogh
• Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
  Brian Tracy
• I've met a lot of leaders in the Army who were very competent--but they didn't have character. And for every job they did well, they sought reward in the form of promotions, in the form of awards and decorations, in the form of getting ahead at the
  expense of someone else, in the form of another piece of paper that awarded them another degree—a sure road to the top. You see, these were competent people, but they lacked character. I've also met a lot of leaders who had superb character but who lacked competence. They weren't willing to pay the price of
  leadership, to go the extra mile because that's what it took to be a great leader. And that's sort of what it's all about. To lead in the 21st century, to take soldiers, sailors, airmen into battle--you will be required to have both character and competence."
  Norman Schwarzkopf
• When you are older, you realize that no one was every thinking about you at all.
  Brian Tracy
• "By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered in the task of creating effective, useful, and peaceful lives--for ourselves, and for our posterity."
  Stephen R. Covey
• We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
  Jim Rohn

• "The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that
  endures."
  George Hegel {1770-1831 German Philosopher}
• Goals determine what you are going to be. -- Julius Erving
  Begin somewhere.You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
  Liz Smith
• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out
  what you hope for. And the most you can do is live
  inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but
  live right in it, under its roof. Right now I'm living in
  that hope, running down its hallway, and touching the
  walls on both sides."
  Barbara Kingsolver
• If you were starting over today, what changes would you make in your life?
  Brian Tracy
• We must either find a way or make one.
  Anthony Robbins
• “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
  Thomas Jefferson
• Seek first to understand and then to be understood."
  Stephen R. Covey {American Speaker, Trainer & Author}
• "Any time you think the problem is out there, that
  very thought is the problem."
  Stephen R. Covey
• The biggest mental roadblocks that you will ever have to overcome are those represented by your self-limiting beliefs.
  Brian Tracy
• "To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time."  Bruce Jenner
• Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.
  Brian Tracy
• "Before I can walk in another person's shoes, I must first remove my own."
  Brian Tracy
• The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the
  accomplishment of an important goal.
  Brian Tracy
• "Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their
  nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself
  into common sense."
  Joseph Addison {1672-1719 British Essayist, Poet & Statesman}
• Young love is when you love someone because of what they do right. Mature love is when you love someone in spite of what they do wrong.
  Mark Goulston
• The best way out of a difficulty is through it.      
  Unknown
  Brian Tracy
• "Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to
  bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry
  money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised."
  Ann Landers {American Advice Columnist}
• Begin With the End in Mind
  “All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things."
  Stephen R. Covey
• "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
  Pamela Vaull Starr
• Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
  Marva Collins
• "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
  Henry David Thoreau
• "Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom."
  Thomas Carlyle {1795-1881 Scottish Author}
• The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
  George McGovern
• "Take responsibility for all that you are and all that you can be."
  Bob Greene
• "Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."
  Anthony Robbins
• "There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way."
  Christoper Morley
• "The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men,
  crooked."
  Napoleon Hill {1883-1970 American Speaker & Motivational Writer}
• For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
  Henry Kissinger, in 'Years of Renewal'
• Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit.
  Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

• Put First Things First
  "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
  Stephen R. Covey
• Change is inevitable. You can't avoid it. The best thing to do is accept change, learn from it, and use it to your BEST advantage! Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.
  Helen Schucman
• It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or
  what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.                       
  Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
• "The best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is."
  Horace Walpole
• Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? Answer: five. Why? Because there's a difference between deciding and doing.
  Mark L. Feldman & Michael F. Spratt in 'Five Frogs on a Log'
• "Self-knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of
  what stuff you are made."
  Johann Goethe
• "If we don't know what we want, we become like a floating balloon. Our direction in life is at the mercy of external forces."
  Bob Greene

• "To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are."
  Anonymous
• "Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just
  beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may
  alight upon you."
  Nathaniel Hawthorne {1804-1864 American Novelist} 
• "Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."
  Les Brown {American Author & Motivator Lecturer}
• "The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to
  be thought to be."
  Socrates {BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher}
• If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?"
  Brian tracy
• "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether
  you are content with your failure."
  Abraham Lincoln
• The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
  Dolly Parton
• "My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."
  William James
• We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.
  Marcel Proust
• Any man's finest hour -- his greatest fulfillment to all
  he holds dear -- is that moment when he has worked his heart
  out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of
  battle -- victorious. . . . Leave no regrets on the field. 
  Vince Lombardi
• True silence is the rest of the mind, it is to the spirit
  what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
  William Penn
• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can,
  I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their
  waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.
  Dennis Waitley

• You can only stumble if you are moving.
  Richard P. Carlton
  Human beings can transform themselves. They can grow larger or smaller but they grow every day.
  Walter Anderson
• A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the
  wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is
  wiser today than he was yesterday.
  Alexander Pope
• The more you listen to the voice within you, the better
  you will hear what is sounding outside.
  Dag Hammarskjold
• Our dreams and goals are never completely realized. They
  are always there before our eyes, but always just
  slightly out of reach. And so, as we strive to fulfill
  our vision, we must make the most of every living moment.       
  Jacqueline Onassis
• "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may
  not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."
  William Arthur
• We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
  Les Brown, Live Your Dreams

• Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore
  those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people,
  places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in. Wanda Carter
• Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole
  staircase, just take the first step.
  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• "True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united."
  Alexander Von Humboldt
• If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen.
  Zig Ziglar, See You At the Top
• “After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty,
  after the headlines have been written and after you are back
  in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been
  placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded,
  the enduring things that are left are: the dedication to
  excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to
  doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a
  better place in which to live."
  Vince Lombardi

• Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
  James Rogers
• "Nothing will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
  Samuel Johnson
• "In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it
  is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes
  effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make
  decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is
  the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively
  carry out the program we have developed through the other three
  endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
  Stephen Covey
• "Income seldom exceeds Personal Development."
  Jim Rohn
• The policy of being too cautious...Is the greatest risk of all.
  Jawaharlal Nehru
• Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
  Abraham Lincoln
• Believe that change can happen, even after overwhelming evidence says things never seem to get better. 
  Richard A. Moran
• Many people are uncomfortable with periods of change and transition; we often think that endings equal death.  But there is no death without rebirth.
  Cathy Hainer

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