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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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Commitment Inspirational Integrity Motivational
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Important Inspirational Life Time
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Change Inspirational Ourselves Perspective
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Family Kindness Relationship
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way
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
The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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Dedication Learning Life Success
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Deep Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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Best Motivational Patience People Time Trust
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Contribution Life
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Courageous Result Thinking
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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People Perspective Thinking
What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Philosophy See Yourself
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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Character Commitment Inspirational Judgement Light Problem
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
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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Clock Compass Life Live Yourself
Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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Beginning Inspirational Motivational One Liner
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
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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Inspirational Life Motivational Myself
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Inspirational Perseverance
Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Seek Understand Yourself
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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Important Integrity Loyal Present Trust
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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Foundation Life Principle Relationship Trust
Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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Deep Human One Liner Perspective Philosophy
Begin with the end in mind.
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Determination Inspirational Success
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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Attitude Inspirational Ourselves Power

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