Zig Ziglar quote: "Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatnes...
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You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that ...
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A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with y...
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
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Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I l...
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
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I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will ex...
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the s...
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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
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I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I w...
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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at t...
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gu...
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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage
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The way you see people is the way you treat them.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.
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You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they wa...
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You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.
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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in t...
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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a frie...
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions a...
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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye a...
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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
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There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
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Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they ...
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Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?
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Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
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Make today worth remembering.
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Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standar...
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The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”...
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If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a ...
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Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should ...
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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
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The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it...
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You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
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You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those s...
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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Every choice you make has an end result.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.
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Our favorite attitude should be gratitude
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People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
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Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
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Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the...
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For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not ...
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When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sen...
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resistin...
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You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
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You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change w...
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Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone...
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it...
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Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they k...
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Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
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All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.
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Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend ...
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommen...
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Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' b...
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U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who...
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited a...
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that e...
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actuall...
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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have,...
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The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on t...
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I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but...
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will d...
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the ...
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who d...
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Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in th...
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment ...
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Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a ...
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When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
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Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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He climbs highest who helps another up.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive ...
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We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even...
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Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your det...
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Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
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Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really g...
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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Now's the best time you'll ever have in life to get ahead!
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we re...
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be h...
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loya...
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Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and ...
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities ...
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough o...
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your chi...
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Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabula...
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people ...
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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in compl...
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want...
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This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enoug...
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, a...
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Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
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La vie est un écho; ce que tu envoies, te revient, ce que tu sèmes, tu le récoltes, ce que tu don...
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If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
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The question is, what are you doing to continually rekindle the passion of your life? What kind of i...
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before he was all fire and brimstone.
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If you want to get information, get it from the best.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have...
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You have to ''be'' before you can ''do,'' and do before you can ''have.''
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I'm in the life-changing business! ... Leadership develops daily, but not in one day.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of y...
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Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they ca...
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Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means &#...
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Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, mo...
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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they f...
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life woul...
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New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
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If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too...
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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from sever...
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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at...
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When a company or individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next comp...
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Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature...
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Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But...
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resistin...
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What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
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The right quote can inspire people to change their ways.
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It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be abl...
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We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you ...
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, p...
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.
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F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is y...
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of y...
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Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to gre...
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I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to ...
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The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you a...
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It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
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The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those si...
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Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational spe...
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All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.
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A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
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Real love is a growing and development process that involves every emotion, problem, joy and triumph...
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America
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You will make a lousy anybody else, but you are the best you in existence. You are the only one who ...
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive...
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the inf...
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, mora...
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If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
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Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
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If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag
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Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
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The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to expr...
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If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get th...
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An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

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