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"I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so."
"Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!"
"Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job."
"I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow."
"Once a need is satisfied, it is no longer a motivator. Satisfaction does not increase motivation"
"Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets."
"One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure."
"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now"
"You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job."
"Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action."
"If you don't like the way you are, don't worry about it. You can change the way you are."
"Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people."
"Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him."
"When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it."
"My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture."
"When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny."
"You cannot go higher than you think you can."
"What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance"
"When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen - this is the panacea to success."
"Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it."