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"It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude."
"The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big."
"Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind."
"If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future."
"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."
"Count the cost first. Don’t pay too big a price for pursuing minor values."
"Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it."
"Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs."
"Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive."
"We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength."
"The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'"
"Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life"
"Focus on the solution, not on the problem."
"The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending."
"The best motivation is self-motivation."
"Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills."
"Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!"
"You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past"
"Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?"
"We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future."