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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.
No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.
If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don’t do it.
Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.
Practice only makes for improvement.
Do what is easy, and your life will be hard. Do what is hard, and your life will become easy.
Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.
If it’s hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.
To be successful, you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.
The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.
Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams and hope.
Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.
Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
When we spend our time looking at what other people do or what they have, we deprive ourselves of the opportunity to see our own value.
You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.
The only limits in life are the ones you make.
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
Today, you expand or you are expendable.
If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.
Perfection does not exist, you can always do better and you can always grow.
Things are not going to improve for you in life until you improve.
What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what’s possible for us.
Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people.
You have to be willing to allow the person you are today to die so that you can give birth to the person you are meant to become.
If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
You decide what your limits are, and you decide your level of success. You are responsible for the time that you spend on this planet.
You can complain about the direction of your life all you want, but until you sit in the driver’s seat and begin to drive yourself, you aren’t going to get where you want to go!
Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.
See yourself confronting your fears in your mind’s eye and handling those fears like a champ.
Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.
Lions don’t have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don’t talk, and those who talk don’t work.
Make your move before you are ready!
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