Write down your goals, make plans to achieve them, and work on your plans every single day.
Brian Tracy
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Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Brian Tracy
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Happiness is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal or goal.
Earl Nightingale
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The starting point of all goal attainment is desire. You must develop an intense burning desire for your goals if you really want to achieve them.
Brian Tracy
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell
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The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.
Brian Tracy
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You are where you are and what you are because of what you have done or failed to do. You are very much the architect of your own destiny.
Brian Tracy
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Allen
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We greatly overestimate what we can accomplish in one year. But we greatly underestimate what we can accomplish in five years.
Peter Drucker
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Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.
Stephen Covey
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Self-trust comes from listening to your intuition, to your "still, small voice" within. Men and women begin to become great when they begin to listen to their inner voices and absolutely trust that they are being guided by a higher power each step of the way.
Brian Tracy
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Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, "In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?"
Brian Tracy
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Non-creative people think that it is a sign of weakness to say, "I made a mistake." On the contrary, it is actually a sign of mental maturity, personal strength and individual character. Remember, everybody makes mistakes every single day.
Brian Tracy
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Many people are so concerned with being right that all their mental energy is consumed by stonewalling, bluffing, blaming and denying. If you're wrong, admit it and get on to the solution or the next step.
Brian Tracy
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I will laud my enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.
Og Mandino
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I will love all manners of men for each has qualities to be admired even though they be hidden.
Og Mandino
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Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.
Jim Rohn
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It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.
Jim Rohn
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Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something.
Jim Rohn
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
Antonin Scalia
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson
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A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald Ford
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A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
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Ah consensus... the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?
Margaret Thatcher
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Gaius Crispus
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Benjamin Franklin
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
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If one wishes to be an idealist, it's probably a good idea to become a hermit at the same time.
Charley Reese
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The more your behavior in the moment is consistent with what you feel your ideal behavior should be, the more you like and respect yourself and the happier you are.
Brian Tracy
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Live your life as if you were already the outstanding person that you intend to be sometime in the future.
Brian Tracy
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Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later... Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. ... A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
Isabel Paterson
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Every time government is forced to act, we lose something in self-reliance, character and initiative.
Herbert Hoover
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Gaius Crispus
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God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Thomas Jefferson
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Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
Daniel Webster
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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington
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Once you have decided that you are going to live consistent with a value, your level of integrity determines whether or not you follow through on your commitment. The more you discipline yourself to live consistent with the very best you know, the greater is your level of personal integrity. And the higher your level of integrity, the happier and more powerful you will feel in everything you do.
Brian Tracy
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Integrity is not so much a value in itself; it is rather the value that guarantees all the other values.
Anonymous
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects something it cannot be.
Thomas Jefferson
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
Lord Acton
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Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them.
F. A. Hayek
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Judge Gideon Tucker
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Realize what you want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
William Moulton Marsden
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There is one quality which 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 always operate in a manner consistent with your self-concept, whether positive or negative.
Brian Tracy
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Overcoming self-limiting beliefs and self-imposed limitations is often the biggest obstacle standing between you and the realization of your full potential.
Brian Tracy
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One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
Thomas B. Reed
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Republics come to an end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
C.L. De Montesquieu
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Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.
Brian Tracy
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce Brothers
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You should look upon failure and temporary defeat as part of the price that you pay on your road to the success that you will inevitably achieve.
Brian Tracy
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis Brandeis
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The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.
Ludwig von Mises
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The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.
Adolf Hitler
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Most businesses are not about coming up with a brand-new, fantastic, never-tried-before, first-time-ever-on-the-planet idea. Most businesses are about a solid business model that delivers good quality and value to a consumer, who you can identify, and do it over and over again.
Seth Godin
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Channing
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Successful people think about solutions most of the time. Unsuccessful people think about problems and difficulties most of the time.
Brian Tracy
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Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.
Jim Rohn
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Successful people are more concerned with what is right rather than who is right.
Brian Tracy
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The two major obstacles to success and achievement are fear and doubt.
Brian Tracy
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Have you ever seen a negative baby? Children come into the world with no doubts or fears at all. And whatever has been learned can be unlearned through practice and repetition.
Brian Tracy
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The primary antidotes to doubt and fear are courage and confidence.
Brian Tracy
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The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Plutarch
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagations of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
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The more you learn what you need to know to achieve your goals, the less fear you will feel on the one hand and the more courage and confidence you will feel on the other.
Brian Tracy
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To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become something that you have never been before.
Les Brown
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The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
Napoleon Hill
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Marden
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Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground. Just as your muscles automatically atrophy from lack of use, so your courage will automatically decay in the absence of conscious conditioning.
Steve Pavlina
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Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.
Steve Pavlina
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
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You can choose to temporarily yield control of your life to others, whether it be to a company, a spouse, or simply to the pressures of daily living, but you can never give away your personal responsibility for the results. Whether you assume direct and conscious control over your life or merely react to events as they happen to you, you and you alone must bear the consequences.
Steve Pavlina
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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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The more people you know, and who know you in a positive way, the more successful you will be at anything you attempt.
Brian Tracy
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Successful people are always working on tasks of high value. Unsuccessful people are always killing time on tasks of low value.
Brian Tracy
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What is the most valuable use of my time, right now? All techniques and methods of goal setting, personal planning, and time management are aimed at helping you to accurately answer this question, every minute of every day.
Brian Tracy
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Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.
Brian Tracy
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All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.
Brian Tracy
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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."
Ann Landers
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When you confront your fears and move toward what you are afraid of, your fears diminish while at the same time your self esteem and self confidence increases.
Brian Tracy
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All of the best advice in the world will only help you if you can motivate yourself to take persistent, continuous action in the direction of your goals until you succeed.
Brian Tracy
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Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution after the enthusiasm with which the resolution was made has passed.
Brian Tracy
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It takes considerable energy to get yourself into motion and moving. But it takes much less energy to keep yourself moving, once you get going.
Brian Tracy
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Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.
Anonymous
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard
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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton
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Adversity is the test that you must pass on the path to accomplishing anything worthwhile.
Brian Tracy
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have lain dormant in its absence.
Herodotus
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High achievers utilize adversity and struggles for growth, while low achievers allow difficulties and adversity to overwhelm them.
Brian Tracy
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I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
Og Mandino
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The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.
Og Mandino
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I will avoid despair, but if this disease of the mind should infect me then I will work on in despair.
Og Mandino
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You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
John Gough
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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance their servant.
Edwin Chapin
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Henceforth will I shed only tears of sweat, for those of sadness or frustration are of no value in the market place whilst each smile can be exchanged for gold and each kind word, spoken from my heart, can build a castle.
Og Mandino
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I had rather have a fool make me merry than experience make me sad.
William Shakespeare
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The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Blaise Pascal
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To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
James Clavell
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The subconscious mind makes no distinction between constructive and destructive thought impulses. It works with the material we feed it, through our thought impulses. The subconscious mind will translate into reality a thought driven by fear, just as readily as it will translate into reality a thought driven by courage or faith.
Napoleon Hill
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If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Harvey Mackay
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what is read ours.
John Locke
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Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.
Jim Rohn
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Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.
Jim Rohn
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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
Jonas Salk
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Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Stephen Covey
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Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Brian Tracy
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If we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words, thinking with our hearts, rather than our brains, is a surefire method to hurt those whom we wish to help.
Walter E. Williams
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
Horace Mann
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It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Matthew Henry
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"
Brian Tracy
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Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work - whereas economics represents how it actually does work.
Steven Levitt
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Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either, "I wish I had," or "I'm glad I did."
Zig Ziglar
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Throughout history, the right to pursue one's goals in a peaceable, voluntary manner, without direction, control, and coercion, has won a hostile reception. There's little older in history than the idea that some should give orders and others obey.
Walter E. Williams
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People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What's more, they believe they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others.
Walter E. Williams
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
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There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal - there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.
Harper Lee
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
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A gentleman does not take part in major arguments over minor issues.
John Bridges
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When a gentleman is confronted by arguments that he considers foolish, he does not attempt to refute them with reason. Instead, he keeps silent, knowing that logic is useless in the war against irrationality.
John Bridges
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A gentleman gives direct answers, especially to controversial questions. Being direct, however, is not the same thing as being rude.
John Bridges
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If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
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Equality before the general rules of law is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty that can be secured without destroying liberty. It is an equality that neither requires nor assumes people are in fact equal. Our attempt to make people equal in fact by rigging law to produce equal results destroys civility and generalized respect for the law. Government cannot create an advantage for one person without simultaneously creating a disadvantage for another.
Walter E. Williams
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
H. L. Mencken
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell
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Profit is a payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital, and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.
Walter E. Williams
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In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you.
Edward Hallowell
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
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The main work of a trial attorney is to make a jury like his client.
Clarence Darrow
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
Brian Tracy
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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
Chilo
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We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
Ayn Rand
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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 Delano Roosevelt
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Mitch Hedberg
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I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
Mitch Hedberg
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The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
John Maxwell
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In life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with your problems. Are you going to fail forward or backward?
John Maxwell
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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
Nelson Boswell
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Rules for Being Human:
Anonymous
1) You will learn lessons.
2) There are no mistakes - only lessons.
3) A lesson is repeated until it is learned.
4) If you don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder. (Pain is one way the universe gets your attention.)
5) You'll know you've learned a lesson when your actions change.
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The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
Herbert Brocknow
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People who fail forward are able to see errors or negative experiences as a regular part of life, learn from them, and then move on.
John Maxwell
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Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success.
John Maxwell
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Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
Grantland Rice
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