Inspirational Quotes - Ultimate Collection E-Book

Darryl Marks

• Herausgeber: Imagination Books
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

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Beschreibung

Inspirational Quotes Ultimate Collection
“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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We all feel at a loss sometimes and need some simple pick me ups to help us become motivated and in control once more.
That’s why this Inspirational Quote Ultimate Collection was created.
“Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” Chinese Proverb

The Biggest Collection Available
In this wonderful collection you get over 4000 fantastic quotes and amazing sayings, to inspire you every day, to lift you and to help you achieve your goals!
It is divided into easy-to-navigate topics such as ‘Motivation’, ‘Destiny’, ‘Inspiration’, ‘Determination’ and ‘Finding Happiness’.
All the quotes are drawn from famous people and personalities from around the world, Socrates to Churchill to Tony Robins, motivational speakers to great philosophers and writers.
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey
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The collection also includes a very special collection of Humorous Quotes and sayings, showing the funny side of optimism, happiness, money and business, drawn from comedians and famous humorists, from Mark Twain to Henny Youngman to Richard Lewis.
Laughter is really the best medicine and its power to heal and motivate should never be overlooked!
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“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” Confucius
“Give thanks for blessings already on their way.” - Native American Prayer

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Table of Contents

Title Page

INSPIRATIONAL

MOTIVATIONAL

GOALS

DETERMINATION

ENCOURAGEMENT

HAPPINESS

SUCCESS

PURPOSE

LEADERSHIP

DRIVE

PASSION

AFFIRMATION

INSPIRATIONAL

ZEAL

INTENSITY

PERSEVERANCE

ATTITUDE

ACHIEVEMENT

LOVE

SPIRITUALITY

TRIUMPH

SELF WORTH

POWER

HUMOROUS QUOTES

 

 

 

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES – ULTIMATE COLLECTION

Editor Darryl Marks

Copyright - Inspirational Quotes Ultimate Collection - First Imagination Books edition published 2018 Copyright © 2018 by Darryl Marks and Infinite Eternity Entertainment LLC All Rights Reserved.

INSPIRATIONAL

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

Maxwell Maltz

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The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

Maxwell Maltz

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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Orison Swett Marden

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Napoleon Hill

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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Les Brown

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Maxwell Maltz

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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskiold

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Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities organize around them.

Stephen Covey

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Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happen you must get busy and make it happen. Take that action step today that will put you on your path to achievement.

Greg Werner

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A vision keeps the Wealthy Soul focused on the path and not on the boulders.

Michael Norwood

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The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

James Lane Allen

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A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

Tom Morris

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You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Les Brown

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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Jack and Garry Kinder

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We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Denis Waitley

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Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nido Qubein

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Goals are new, forward moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.

Mark Victor Hansen

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Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities organize around them.

Stephen Covey

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Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results.

Mark Victor Hansen

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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Napoleon Hill

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A winner is someone who recognizes his God given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Larry Bird

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Denis Waitley

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Greg Anderson

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.

Richard Bach

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The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

James Lane Allen

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A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

Tom Morris

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You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Les Brown

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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nido Qubein

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Goals are new, forward moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.

Mark Victor Hansen

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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoffer

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A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

John Maxwell

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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

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Reduce your plan to writing.. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

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This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

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People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.. It's as simple as that.

Earl Nightingale

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Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

Stedman Graham

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Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

Robert Collier

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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert

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Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Elbert Hubbard

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The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

Denis Waitley

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When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

W.J. Slim

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There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

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Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.

Harvey Mackay

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Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results.

Mark Victor Hansen

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A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow.

George S. Patton

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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

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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

David Lloyd George

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To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Janet Erskine Stuart

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.

Harold B. Melchart

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Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Robert Browning

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Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires. Randolph S. Bourne

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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.

Napoleon Hill

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Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg

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Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen. Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Belva Davis

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Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

Mark Twain

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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

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The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of planning in life, and the tragic brevity of time. W.J. Davison

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Teaching kids how they can create their futures is a powerful and critical character building attribute. Goals education gives them the tools needed for designing a productive life, of benefit to themselves, our country and for future generations.

Gary Ryan Blair

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Learning how to set and achieve a goal is perhaps the single most important thing your child can learn to prepare for school, adulthood, and employment. The more adept your child is at understanding this important life skill, the more options he or she will have.

Gary Ryan Blair

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For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

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A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.

Gary Ryan Blair

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Goal setting starts with a pad of paper, a pen and you.

Gary Ryan Blair

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The dreams you see most clearly are most likely to come true.

Barney the dinosaur

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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore. –Success stories Quiet your mind and picture yourself attaining your dream. . . . Without even realizing it, your confidence soars and you become a magnet for Good things.

Dr. Dennis Deaton

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In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

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Quiet your mind and picture yourself attaining your dream. . . .Without even realizing it, your confidence soars and you become a magnet for good things.

Dr. Dennis Deaton

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Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time.

Mark Twain

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Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, he can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

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Nothing happens, unless first a dream!.

Carl Sandburg

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We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Doanld Curts

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What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions and using your personal power and taking action.

Anthony Robbins

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Deeds, not words shall speak to me.

John Fletcher

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I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

Dr. Jonas Salk

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If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

Napolean Hill

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You don't just luck into things . . . You build step by step, whether it's friendships or op-opportunities.

Barbara Bush

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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

A.C. Benson

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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Napoleon Hill

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People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.. It's as simple as that.

Earl Nightingale

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If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

St. Francis of Assisi

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This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

Scott Reed

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The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

Denis Waitley

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

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If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

Brian Tracy

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Celebrate any progress. Don't wait to get perfect.

Ann McGee Cooper

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Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

Mark Twain

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You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

W. Clement Stone

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Do the next thing.

John Wanamaker

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Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nido Qubein

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If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else.

Brian Tracy

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You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

W. Clement Stone

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There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Geoffry F. Abert

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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Og Mandino

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What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

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Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg

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Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

Jonathan Swift

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Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is the key to unlocking your potential as an achiever.

Greg Werner

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You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

W. Clement Stone

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Creative ideas reside in people’s minds but are trapped by fear or rejection. Create a judgment free environment and you’ll unleash a torrent of creativity.

Alex Osborn

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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Anthony Robbins

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The more you can dream the more you can do.

Michael Korda

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Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Make progress one time and it makes you happy. Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a champion.

Greg Werner

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If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

William Hazlitt

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Lee Iacocca

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Vision doesn't usually come as a lightning bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.

Dr. Michael Norwood

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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Orison Swett Marden

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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

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Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?.

Charles Connolly

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By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Dorothea Brande

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Charles J. Givens

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

Nicholas Lore

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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

Samuel Johnson

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MOTIVATIONAL

To be successful you've got to have a dream, a vision, a burning passion, a magnificent obsession. This dream, goal, obsession has to become your prime motivator. It takes enthusiasm, commitment, pride, a willingness to work hard, a willingness to go the extra mile, a willingness to do whatever has to be done in order to get the job done.

Jeffrey J. Mayer

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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

J.C. (James Cash) Penney

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Does planning make the man or woman? Maybe so, maybe not. But why take the chance. Knowing without a doubt that you are prepared by doing your homework provides a feeling that is beyond price.

the confidence and power needed to succeed in life.

Gary Ryan Blair

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

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Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

Peter Drucker

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Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Allen Lakein

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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you’re doing.

W.E.Deming

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Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

Greg Anderson

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

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The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

Brian Tracy

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Plan your work and work your plan.

Napolean Hill

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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

William Ellery Channing

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The best opportunities in life are the ones we create. Goal setting provides for you the opportunity to create an extraordinary life.

Gary Ryan Blair

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Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequences of today's decisions.

Gary Ryan Blair

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Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Mary Lou Retton

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What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about.

Joseph Epstein

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How would you feel if you had mastered and attained all your goals a year from now? How would you feel about yourself? How would you feel about your life? Answering these questions will help you develop compelling reasons to achieve your goals. Having a powerful enough why will provide you with the necessary how. Take this opportunity to brainstorm your top four one-year goals. Under each one, write a paragraph about why you are absolutely committed to achieving these goals within the year.

Anthony Robbins

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Repetition is the mother of skill.

Unknown

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Think about your goals at every opportunity throughout the day.

Brian Tracy

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Plan your work and work your plan.

Napoleon Hill

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Every accomplishment begins with a decision to try.

Edward T. Kelly

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Goals determine what you are going to be.

Julius Erving

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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

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Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

Brian Tracy

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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr

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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Stephen R. Covey

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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

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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 fulfil our vision, we must make the most of every living moment.

Jacqueline Onassis

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People are not lazy. They simply have important goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Mark Twain

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I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

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Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

Brian Tracy

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Les Brown

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Where there is life, there is hope Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life – purpose.

is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.

Dennis Waitley

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Jim Rohn

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Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day.

Brian Tracy

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You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

Charles Buxton

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success. Or are they holding you back? W. Clement Stone

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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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All that counts in life is intention.

Andrea Bocelli

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

Michelle Burford

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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Susan Sontag

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Winners make it happen. Losers let it happen.

Leonard Lavin

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We can’t reach our goals without significant continuous improvement in all areas.

Patrick J. Early

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Never confuse activity with results…results have to be real.

James Johnson

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If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Albert Camus

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.

Unknown

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have.

Henri Alban-Fournier

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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Thomas Aquinas

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All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

Richard Bach

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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

John M. Barrie

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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

Charles Baudelaire

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Let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

Bo Bennett

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Avoiding the phrase "I don’t have time." will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

Bo Bennett

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Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Ray Bradbury

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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

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Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Lou Brock

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But if a person has had the sense of the Call -- the feeling that there's an adventure for him -- and if he doesn't follow that, but remains in the society because it's safe and secure, then life dries up.

Joseph Campbell

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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

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As soon as you begin to believe in something, then you can no longer see anything else. The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Pema Chödrön

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There is no road or ready way to virtue.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Turning points always seem so sudden and absolute, as if they have come bolt out of the blue. That is not true, of course. A whole slow process goes into their making.

Azar Nafisi

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Beverly Sills

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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Gary Ryan Blair

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Put your future in good hands. Your own.

Mark Victor Hansen

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The only goal you can't accomplish is the one that you don't go after!

Vilis Ozols

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The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

John Wooden

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We will either find a way or make one.

Hannibal

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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Earl Nightingale

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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Lee Iacoca

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A persistent strong desire pushes your goal into manifestation.

Remez Sasson

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Nothing happens until I make it happen.

Scott Wilson

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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Henry Ford

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When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

Nido Qubein

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Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn’t do one thing—like the architect who didn’t build St Paul’s. I didn’t quite build St Paul’s, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.

Lord Thorneycroft

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Cecil B. DeMille

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If an individual sets an achievable goal and never gives up, they will either achieve their goal, or die trying. If a civilisation sets an achievable goal and never gives up, they will achieve their goal. What shall we do?

Matthew Keith Groves

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Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

James Cook

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Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without.

James Allen

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If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Yogi Berra

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to

to work for and hope for.

Maxwell Maltz

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When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, ‘Let's go, let's go,’ and ceilings start to move up.

Zig Ziglar

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Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

Dennis Waitley

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid to do.’

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning

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GOALS

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

Dr. David Hawkins

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There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

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Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation to simply receive from your-self, and from the universe.

Jon Kabat Zinn

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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

W. L. Shirer

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Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses...On your powers, instead of your problems.

Paul J. Meyer

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maxwell Maltz

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A man is as great as the dreams he dreams, As great as the love he bears; As great as the values he redeems, And the happiness he shares. A man is as great as the thoughts he thinks, As the worth he has attained; As the fountains at which his spirit drinks And the insight he has gained. A man is as great as the truth he speaks, As great as the help he gives, As great as the destiny he seeks, As great as the life he lives.

C.E. Flynn

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Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities organize around them.

Stephen Covey

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Orison Swett Marden

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When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident about yourself.

Brian Tracy

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There's always a way if you're committed.

Anthony Robbins

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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

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Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happen you must get busy and make it happen. Take that action step today that will put you on your path to achievement.

Greg Werner

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The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.

Thomas Szasz

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Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get.

Draper L. Kaufman, Jr.

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Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Brooke Astor

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Greg Anderson

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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

John D. Rockefeller

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I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Les Brown

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Whatever you're ready for is ready for you.

Mark Victor Hansen

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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Oprah Winfrey

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The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual, everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

Ayn Rand

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Just as friction between certain types of rocks produces sparks of light, so it is the friction of our individualities rubbing against each other that illuminates who we really are.

Rev. Rowland C. Croucher

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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoffer

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Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get.

Draper L. Kaufman, Jr.

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No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.

Minot Simons

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacFinan

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You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Les Brown

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You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.

Dr Wayne Dyer

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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized and never knowing.

David Viscott

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

John Maxwell

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Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour by hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Peter

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Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.

William H. Sheldon

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The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.

E.M. Gray

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The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right for you. Live your own dreams. And you will know the meaning of happiness.

Oprah Winfrey

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The first step to becoming is to will it.

Mother Teresa

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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Your choices today determine your tomorrow and you make your life through the power of choice.

Kathy Smith

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There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

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Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Ruth McKenney

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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

W. Clement Stone

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Orison Swett Marden

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Dignity and Respect has to do with what you are ready, willing, and able to accept within yourself and in accepting to be able to give others. It is your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions.

Gail Pursell Elliott

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One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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When we bend and stretch, reach for the stars, we may find that the stars we are reaching for exist within us, waiting to illumine a deeper insight and greater awareness, to shine into our lives, our environment, and into the lives of others. Each of us has purpose and a mission that only we can fulfil right where we are.

Gail Pursell Elliott

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You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

Napoleon Hill

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or convictions.

Dag Hammarskjold

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You give your best not because you need to impress people. You give your best because that's the only way to enjoy your work.

Andrew Matthews

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Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big.

Anonymous

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For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

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You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.

Marsha Sinetar

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Man does not drift into goodness the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

William George Jordan

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Have less. Do less. Be more.

Aboodi Shaby

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I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

Marlo Morgan

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There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer

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Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Corita Kent

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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

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A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

Hans Selye

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We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Abraham Lincoln

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others.

Mark Twain

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Ray Bradbury

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What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

Edward G. Bulwer Lytton

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There is a better way to do it; find it.

Thomas Edison’s Motto

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A fool vents all his feelings, but a wise man holds them back.

Proverbs

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Joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as an opportunity to be of service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

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I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.

Anthony Robbins

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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.

Erica Jong

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Lack of concentration of effort: The jack-of-all trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Unknown

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Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path, and the only one upon which you will never get lost.

M.H. McKee

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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Ben Franklin

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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Erich Fromm

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Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself.

Epictetus

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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life . . . Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.

Viktor Frankl

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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

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Quality is everyone's responsibility.

W. Edwards Deming

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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.

Anthony Robbins

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If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it only you.

Gordon MacKenzie

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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. How do you replace limiting beliefs? The most effective way is to destabilize your old belief shake your certainty by questioning it. Remember that your brain is always trying to move you away from pain, so think about all the negative consequences this belief has caused. Ask yourself: 1) As I reconsider it, what's actually silly, ridiculous, or stupid about this belief? 2) What has this belief already cost me? How has it limited me in the past? 3) What could it cost me in the future if I don't change now? Answering these types of questions will help you associate painful feelings to the old, undesired belief and provide you with the opportunity to replace it with an empowering one.

Anthony Robbins

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You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.

Les Brown

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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.

Mary Dunbar

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We have to accept the consequences of every deed, word and thought throughout our lifetime.

Elisabeth Kubler Ross

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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Every journey begins with but a small step and every day is a chance for a new, small step in the right direction. Just follow your Heart song.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek

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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Ben Stein What you resist persists and grows larger.

Jeanne Bice

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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming

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People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. To put it another way: When you stop working on what it is you're trying to get and start working on YOU, only then will you get what it is you want.

James Allen

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There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

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You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming and encouraging your greatest asset.

Tom Hopkins

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There is a choice you have to make, in everything you do. And you must always keep in mind the choice you make, makes you.

Unknown

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Chinese Proverb

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There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

Riner Maria Rilke

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Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Whitman

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Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.

Eileen Caddy

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You are where you are today because you’ve chosen to be there.

Harry Browne

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What crazy idea do you have down deep inside that makes people chuckle or laugh every time you bring it up? However wild it may be, no matter how many scoff at it, risk a little time and a few bucks. You may be able to demonstrate you were right after all. And you'll be on your way to success.

Bob McElwain

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Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.

Anthony Robbins

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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

Washington Irving

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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me." And then you have found that attitude, follow it.

William James

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It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

Anthony Robbins

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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Unknown

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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

Orison Swett Marden

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Life is a gift and all of us who have the capacity must remember that we have the responsibility to give something back; a small but consistent commitment of time and caring can make a measurable difference in the world.

Anthony Robbins

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DETERMINATION

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Socrates

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Do good and care not to whom.

Italian Proverb

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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself.

Orison Sweet Marden

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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson

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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

George Eliot

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The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

Hugh Prather

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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

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All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.

Eileen Caddy

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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

Orison Swett Marden

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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin

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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

William James

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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

Marlo Morgan

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There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

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Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.

Nathaniel Branden

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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

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