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If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

John C. Maxwell

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
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Determination Easy Encouragement Herself Himself Person Yourself
Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.
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Achievement Knowledge Motivational Persistence Problem Pursue Yourself
Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
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Determination Life Past Result Thinking Yourself
We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.
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Belief Consistency Ourselves Way
Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.
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Character Limitation Rise Stop Success Yourself
You’ll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out.
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Action Inspirational Possible Yourself
When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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Commitment Confidence Leadership
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
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Alone Food Live Man Need Remember
We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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Reality Reproduction Teaching
To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth Life Stay Strength Success
The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.
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Character Oneself True
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
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Excuse Leadership Responsibility
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
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Better Growth Learning Mistake Pay Price Time Wrong Yourself
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
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Change Failure Need Planning Vision Yourself
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
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Leadership Oneself Way
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.
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Action Kind Mistake People Work World

If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

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If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

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