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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

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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Ourselves Reaction
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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Heart Important Mindset Preparation
You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Efficiant Yourself
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Greatness Leadership Talk Yourself
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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Creative Exercise Opportunity Perspective Problem
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Courageous Result Thinking
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
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
You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Flower Inspirational Water Yourself
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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Different Inspirational Love Life Ourselves
Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
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Experience Kind Value Yourself
We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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Challenge Character Development
You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Result Success Yourself
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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Future Important Inspirational
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way
The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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Different Expectation Life Problem
There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world – no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
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Compassion Difference Ourselves Service
To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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Empathy Human Important Skill
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Change Decision Ourselves
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Choices Leadership
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Ourselves See World
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
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
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
I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Boundary People Teaching Treat
He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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Belief Deal Himself Life
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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Action Inspirational Life Motivational

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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