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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Stephen Covey

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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Goal Important Pay People Price Simplicity Struggle
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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Inspirational Life Place Right Wrong
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Feeling Impossible Intelligence Motivational People Reason Thinking
There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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Change Choice Life Philosophy Principle
While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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Ourselves Reaction
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Greatness Leadership Talk Yourself
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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Burn Inspirational Motivational Success
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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Focus Important Motivational Yourself
Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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Business Expectation Forgiveness Freedom Hate Heart
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
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Action Hands Inspirational Leadership Motivational
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.
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Emotional Listening Reflection View
You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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Business Heart Loyalty Person Yourself
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Change Inspirational Ourselves Perspective
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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Belief Deal Himself Life
Internal victories precede external victories.
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Success Victory

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

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