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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

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Inspirational Life Yourself
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
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Family Kindness Relationship
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Change Emotional Motivational Philosophy
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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Inspirational Life Place Right Wrong
I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Boundary People Teaching Treat
Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
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Right Wonder Yourself
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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Agreement Break Up Relationship
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Choices Leadership
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
You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Result Success Yourself
It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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Direction Inspirational Life Wrong
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
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
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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Focus Important Motivational Yourself
He who has a why can deal with any what or how.
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Belief Deal Himself Life
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
You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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Problem Skill Talk Way
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
What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Philosophy See Yourself
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Inspirational Perseverance
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Contribution Life
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
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
While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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Ourselves Reaction
There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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Change Choice Life Philosophy Principle

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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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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