He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton
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Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.
Marcus Aurelius
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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. Penney
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For thus I estimate the qualities of the mind: 1, good humor; 2, integrity; 3, industry; 4, science. The preference of the first to the second quality may not at first be acquiesced in; but certainly we had all rather associate with a good-humored, light-principled man, than with an ill-tempered rigorist in morality.
Thomas Jefferson
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Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.
George Washington
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Speak not when others speak, sit not when others stand, and walk not when others stop.
George Washington
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Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters somewhat grave.
George Washington
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Use no reproachful language against anyone, neither curses nor revilings.
George Washington
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Mock not nor jest at anything of importance; break no jests that are sharp or biting; and if you deliver anything witty or pleasant, abstain from laughing thereat yourself.
George Washington
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Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.
Jim Rohn
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Adlai Stevenson
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
Samuel Adams
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George Curtis
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In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain
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How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you. In order to produce a successful life, one must find ways to please his fellow man. That is, find out what goods and services his fellow man values, and is willing to pay for, and then acquire the necessary skills and education to provide it.
Walter E. Williams
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Utter not base and frivolous things amongst grown and learned men, nor very difficult questions or subjects amongst the ignorant, nor things hard to be believed.
George Washington
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Be not apt to relate news if you know not the truth thereof. In discoursing of things you have heard, name not your author always. A secret discover not.
George Washington
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Be not curious to know the affairs of others, neither approach to those that speak in private.
George Washington
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Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
George Washington
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington
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Let the hospitality of the House, with respect to the poor, be kept up; Let no one go hungry away. If any of these kind of People should be in want of Corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness; and I have no objection to your giving my Money in Charity, to the Amount of forty or fifty Pounds a Year, when you think it well bestowed. What I mean, by having no objection, is, that it is my desire that it should be done. You are to consider that neither myself or Wife are now in the way to do these good Offices. In all other respects, I recommend it to you, and have no doubts, of your observing the greatest Oeconomy and frugality; as I suppose you know that I do not get a farthing for my services here more than my Expenses; It becomes necessary, therefore, for me to be saving at home.
George Washington
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The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers.
Brian Tracy
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
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All we can do is to make the best of our friends: love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of music for a flat passage or two.
Thomas Jefferson
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The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves, and to suffice for our own happiness. Those, which depend on ourselves, are the only pleasures a wise man will count on: for nothing is ours which another may deprive us of. Hence the inestimable value of intellectual pleasures. Ever in our power, always leading us to something new, never cloying, we ride, serene and sublime, above the concerns of this mortal world, contemplating truth and nature, matter and motion, the laws which bind up their existence, and that eternal being who made and bound them up by these laws. Let this be our employ. Leave the bustle and tumult of society to those who have not talents to occupy themselves without them.
Thomas Jefferson
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When there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.
George Washington
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Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
Benjamin Franklin
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Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Benjamin Franklin
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Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Benjamin Franklin
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Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Benjamin Franklin
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Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
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Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
Benjamin Franklin
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Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
Benjamin Franklin
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Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Benjamin Franklin
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Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
Benjamin Franklin
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Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
Benjamin Franklin
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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Benjamin Franklin
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Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
Benjamin Franklin
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Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.
Benjamin Franklin
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Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence.
Thomas Jefferson
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The noblest question in the world is, "What good may I do in it?"
Benjamin Franklin
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The world stands in more need of justice than charity, and indeed it is the want of justice that renders charity everywhere so necessary.
Benjamin Rush
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Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, and exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference!
Thomas Jefferson
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Doing good to men is the only service of God in our power; and to imitate his beneficence is to glorify him.
Benjamin Franklin
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live.
Omar Bradley
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A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
Plato
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The first trick of the winning argument is the trick of abandoning trickery.
Gerry Spence
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Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.
Gerry Spence
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Successful argument unfolds when we have regained the ability to reveal ourselves, to expose our feelings, and simply ask for what we want.
Gerry Spence
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcom Forbes
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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as close to heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
W. E.B. DuBois
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The words 'It must have been' are magical words that say to the other, "I understand how it was."
Gerry Spence
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Words that do not create images should be discarded.
Gerry Spence
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I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
Gerry Spence
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The most effective structure for any argument will always be story.
Gerry Spence
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Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.
Edward Kock
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Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Peter Marshall
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Entrusting the government or an employer, other than yourself, with your retirement income is like hiring a compulsive gambler as your accountant.
Denis Waitley
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A concession coming from your mouth is not nearly as hurtful as an exposure coming from your opponent's.
Gerry Spence
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The key to opening the other to our arguments is to empower the other to reject us.
Gerry Spence
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Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can´t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing.
Jim Rohn
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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
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Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
Zig Ziglar
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You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility.
Zig Ziglar
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There are two ways to climb an oak tree. You can climb it, or you can sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow.
Anonymous
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I have never read where a woman has given birth to a salesman, or a doctor, lawyer, artist, engineer, etc. However, I do read where doctors, lawyers, salesmen, etc., die. Since they are not "born," but they do "die," obviously, somewhere between birth and death, by choice and by training, they become what they wish to become.
Zig Ziglar
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Your success and your happiness start with you.
Zig Ziglar
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If you will use what you have, you will be given more to use.
Zig Ziglar
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You can always find a capable helping hand at the end of your own sleeve.
Zig Ziglar
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Most people wait until everything is just right before they do anything. They refuse to go out on a limb where the fruit is. They refuse to bet on themselves.
Zig Ziglar
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Those who wait until all the lights are on green before starting will never leave home.
Zig Ziglar
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When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up.
Zig Ziglar
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You cannot consistently perform in a manner that is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Zig Ziglar
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Education is important, but dedication is even more important.
Zig Ziglar
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Two sure ways to fail: Think and never do, or do and never think.
Zig Ziglar
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Good leadership involves responsibility to the welfare of the group, which means that some people will get angry at your actions and decisions. It's inevitable, if you're honorable. Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity: you'll avoid the tough decisions, you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted, and you'll avoid offering differential rewards based on differential performance because some people might get upset. Ironically, by procrastinating on the difficult choices, by trying not to get anyone mad, and by treating everyone equally "nicely" regardless of their contributions, you'll simply ensure that the only people you'll wind up angering are the most creative and productive people in the organization.
Colin Powell
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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
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Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.
Colin Powell
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Good leaders don't wait for official blessing to try things out. They're prudent, not reckless. But they also realize a fact of life in most organizations: if you ask enough people for permission, you'll inevitably come up against someone who believes his job is to say "no." So the moral is, don't ask. Less effective middle managers endorsed the sentiment, "If I haven't explicitly been told 'yes,' I can't do it," whereas the good ones believed, "If I haven't explicitly been told 'no,' I can." There's a world of difference between these two points of view.
Colin Powell
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Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.
Colin Powell
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Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.
Colin Powell
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Spare me the grim litany of the "realist." Give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day.
Colin Powell
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Procrastination in the name of reducing risk actually increases risk.
Colin Powell
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Shift the power and the financial accountability to the folks who are bringing in the beans, not the ones who are counting or analyzing them.
Colin Powell
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The essence of leadership is the willingness to make the tough, unambiguous choices that will have an impact on the fate of the organization.
Colin Powell
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Be firm on principle but flexible on method.
Zig Ziglar
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Once a person accepts himself, it isn't imperative that others accept him. He is not "destroyed" if others reject him.
Zig Ziglar
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The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them.
Zig Ziglar
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You should never share your goals with anyone unless you know they not only believe you can reach the goals but they want you to reach them. Others decide not to commit their goals to paper so if they don't quite "make it," they will have the built-in explanation that they didn't really fail because they never set those goals. This is a safer and even a "no risk" approach for them that guarantees they will not reach a fraction of their potential.
Zig Ziglar
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List the things you need to do during the next three days. Then act as if you only had one day to do three days work.
Zig Ziglar
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People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.
Zig Ziglar
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Would you know others? Read yourself -- and learn!
Friedrich von Schiller
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Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Roy L. Smith
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you'll be a success.
Albert Schweitzer
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Just as nature gives us physical pain to guide us to doing or not doing things in the physical realm, nature gives us emotional pain to guide us toward doing or not doing things in the emotional or mental realm. The wonderful thing is that you're constructed so that if you simply listen carefully to yourself - to your mind, your body and your emotions - and follow the guidance you're given, you can dramatically enhance the quality of your life.
Brian Tracy
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Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
Brian Tracy
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Without long-range goals, you are likely to be overcome by short-range frustrations.
Zig Ziglar
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Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.
Zig Ziglar
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If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Zig Ziglar
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A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.
Zig Ziglar
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Many people go through life making nothing but "if" decisions. These are not decisions for success but preparations for failure.
Zig Ziglar
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The mind is a dutiful servant and will follow the instructions we give it.
Zig Ziglar
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You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Zig Ziglar
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The way you see things - your attitude - is the most important factor in your success.
Zig Ziglar
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Isaac Asimov
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Whatever you plant in the mind is going to come up - multiplied. Plant a negative or a positive and you reap in multiples because between planting and harvest, imagination enters the picture and multiplies the result.
Zig Ziglar
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Since the beginning of recorded history, no one has erected a statue to a critic.
Zig Ziglar
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Once you learn to do something consciously, you can move it into the subconscious and do it well. Everything you do well will be done subconsciously.
Zig Ziglar
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Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the "time to be right" to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill
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The most expensive piece of real estate is the six inches between your right and left ear. It’s what you create in that area that determines your wealth. We are only really limited by our mind.
Dolph de Roos
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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
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My experience has shown me that if you have to say what you are, you probably aren't. Think about that for a moment. 'I'm honest,' 'I'm ethical,' even 'I'm the boss,' or 'I'm in charge,' usually indicates just the opposite.
Jeffrey Gitomer
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
Zig Ziglar
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Don't borrow or lend books. Buy them as often as possible and build a library you have personalized with markings for future reference.
Zig Ziglar
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There is plenty of room at the top, but not enough room to sit down.
Zig Ziglar
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Good habits are difficult to acquire, but easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to acquire, but difficult to live with.
Zig Ziglar
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Anonymous
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We acquire the characteristics of the people we associate with on a steady basis.
Zig Ziglar
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We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.
Anonymous
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All bad habits start slowly and gradually and before you know you have the habit, the habit has you.
Zig Ziglar
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There is really no such thing as eliminating a habit. You must replace the bad habit with a good one.
Zig Ziglar
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Education covers a lot of ground, but it won't cultivate any of it.
Anonymous
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