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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."
"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."
"When you make a to-do list, you should also make a to-not-do list. Warren Buffet was asked about the secret to success, and he said that it was saying no to almost everything. Some of those little tasks won't matter as long as you get the big tasks done."
"If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best."
"Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed."
"Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself."
"You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't."
"The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life."
"Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop."
"Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'"
"What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?"
"If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself."
"Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you."
"Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony."
"The more you like yourself, the better you do at everything you put your mind to."
"If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like."
"A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals."
"One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development."
"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings."
"Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."