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“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
- Jim Valvano, Basketball Coach -
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“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
- Oscar Wilde -
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“Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.”
- George F. Burns -
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“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable.
Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”
- Denis Watley -
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“It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.”
- Wayne Dyer -
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“Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dancefloor.”
- Jackson Brown -
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“First, have a definite, clear practical idea; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”
- Aristotle -
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“Be as you wish to seem.”
- Socrates -
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“The only person alive on this planet that can stop you from succeeding is you.”
- Aubry Padmore -
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“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
- General Norman Schwarzkopf, US Commander in the 1991 Persian Gulf War -
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“The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.”
- Hamilton Wright Mabee -
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
- Marc Twain -
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“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning how to dance in the rain.”
- Unkown -
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
- Unknown -
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“Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.”
- Anthony Robbins -
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“Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.”
- Maxwell Maltz -
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‘One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.’
- William Feather -
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“First, have a definite, clear practical idea;a goal, an objective.
Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods.
Third, adjust all your means to that end.”
- Denis Watley -
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“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”
- Fanny Brice -
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“…those who can most truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, to meet what is to come.”
- Pericles -
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“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
- Epictetus -
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“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
- Steve Jobs -
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“Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.”
- Anthony Robbins -
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“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
- Dr. Robert Schuller -
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“What you are thinking now is creating your future life. You create your life with your thoughts. Because you are always thinking, you are always creating. What you think about most or focus on the most, is what will appear as your life.”
- The Secret, Rhonda Byrne -
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“It’s impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
- J.K.Rowling -
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“Our greatest glory is not in never failing,
but in getting up every time we do.”
- Confucius -
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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
- Albert Ellis -
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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
- C.S.Lewis -
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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
- Lao Tse -
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“When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.”
- The Dalai Lama -
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“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. -
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“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
- Albert Einstein -
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.”
- Viktor Frankl -
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“In order to become empowered, to become the co-creator in our lives, and to stop giving power to the belief that we are the victim, it is absolutely necessary to own that we have choices.”
- Robert Burney -
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“Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star.”
- Willis Reed -
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“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”
- Denis Watley -
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Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier.
- Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture -
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“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.”
- Henry Ford -
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“When the world says “Give up” Hope whispers.”
- Unknown -
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“Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something … The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop OTHER people.”
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“Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.”
- Maxwell Maltz -
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“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.”
- Nido Qubein -
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“Change is the only constant.”
- Proverb -
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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
- Larry Elder -
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“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”
- Jesse Jackson -
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“When you are in the valley,
keep your goal firmly in view and
you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.”
- Denis Waitl -
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“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”
- Jordan Belfort -
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“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.”
- Arnold H. Glasgow -
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“I choose to make the REST of my life the BEST of my life.”
- Louise Hay -
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“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.”
- Arnold H. Glasgow -
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“Things are only impossible until somebody does what another believes can’t be done.”
- Anthony Robbins -
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“You get the best effort from others not by lightening a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.”
- Bob Nelson -
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
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