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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

Epictetus

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.
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Believe Confidence Faith Inspirational Time
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous, even death is terrible only if we fear it.
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Attitude Control Death Fear Nature Terrible
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Book Poet Reading Writing
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
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Endure Introduce Life Opportunity Resource Strength
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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Arise Control Neglect Power Suffering Try
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.
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Alone Appearance Impression Life People Strength
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
You become what you give your attention to. If you yourself don’t choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.
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Attention Choose Expose Giving Self Love Yourself
Books are the training weights of the mind.
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Book Mind One Liner Training Weight
Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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Adopt Association Attitude Negative People Trouble
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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Carry Focus Greatness Inspirational Need Seed
It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Deep Expectation People Reality Yourself

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

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