"The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character."
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"I won't take time to repeat all the obvious benefits of physical exercise but will only underscore the well-attested fact that a program of regular exercise increases one's efficiency in every facet of life, including the depth and restfulness of sleep. And the time taken can be minimal; just a few minutes of calisthenics and running in place in one's room or jogging around the yard or block is often sufficient. Exercising doesn't take time. It saves time. Still, few consistently do it."
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"Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions."
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"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment."
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"Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education."
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"How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one."
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"Don't get buried in the thick of thin things."
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"Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around."
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"He who has a why can deal with any what or how."
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"Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again."
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"If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless."
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"The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified."
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"How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it."
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"The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person."
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"The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.""
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"If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee."
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"..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are pushing a rope...with all of their might."
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"Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb."
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"The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual."
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"Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth."
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