Mary Kay Ash Quotes

People often resist change when they don’t participate in the decision-making process. Some of the best leaders ‘plant the seed’ that permits others to propose the idea and take credit for it!
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Change Decision Ideas People Progress Proposal Resistance
Help other people get what they want – and you’ll get what you want.
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Compassionate Help Kindness People Yourself
Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.
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Believe Dreams Fulfill Greatness Mindset Reality See Yourself
You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.
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Business Demand Leadership Success Yourself
Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.
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Believe Faith God Hope Problem Solution True Yourself
For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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Action Failure Inspirational Road Travel
You can’t stand still. You either go forward or backward.
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Inspirational Move Stand Yourself
Dare to risk public criticism.
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Criticism Dare One Liner Risk
Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.
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Achievement Greatness Path Small Success
Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it’s too late.
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Deep Life Live Move People Time Travel
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
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Absence Act Goal Loyalty Performance
I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.
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Believe People Praise Reaction Water Yourself
An average person with average talents and average ambition can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society; if that person has clear focused goals.
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Ambition Average Brilliant Focus Genius Goal Person Society Talent
Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.
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Blessing Excellence Necessary People Talent
People fall forward to success.
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Fall One Liner People Success
Fear is faith that it won’t work.
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Faith Fear One Liner Work
I believe that work if often the best antidote for grief.
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Believe Grief Work
There is a way; Up, Around, Over or Through.
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Solution Way
Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.
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Care Enough Leadership Motivational Teaching
Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.
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Belief Give Up Inspirational Motivational Success Try Yourself
The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return – 100-fold. Only sow that which you wish to receive in return. Sow good, receive good! Plant seeds daily in your Mary Kay business and your Mary Kay business will return to you.
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Business Heart Mindset Plant Return Seed Yourself
My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
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Future Happiness Love Myself
There are two things people want more than sex and money, recognition and praise.
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Money People Praise Recognition Sex Worth
Real leaders aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.
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Afraid Dirty Hands Leadership Reality
Think about it, no one can win a race in which he had given up. You can’t win a battle for which you have surrendered.
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Battle Give Up Race Surernder Thinking Win
A strong beginning is a good thing only when coupled with a strong finish.
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Beginning Couple End Goodness Strong
You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping stones and climb to new heights.
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Determination Inspirational Motivational People Place Success

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