Secrets of SUCCESS Book

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STEPS TO A MORE

SUCCESSFUL LIFE

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Everyone shall taste

death. And only on theDay of Resurrectionshall you be paid your

wages in full. And

whoever isremoved awayfrom the Fire

and admitted toParadise, he

indeed is

SUCCESSFUL. Thelife of this world is only

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the enjoyment of

deception.

- Quran 3:185Actions have consequences ... first rule of life. And thesecond rule is this - you are the only one responsible foryour own actions.

- Holly Lisle

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Onlythrough experiences of trial and suffering can the soulbe strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired andsuccess achieved.

- HelenKeller

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seekingnew landscapes, but in having new eyes.- Marcel Proust

In truth, people can generally make time for what theychoose to do; it is not really the time but the will that islacking.

- JohnLubbock

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every manhas many, not on your past misfortunes of which allmen have some.

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- CharlesDickens

Success is being able to establish a set of priority

values and enjoying living with those priorities. - Gunn McKay

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to haveenough leisure to wonder whether you are happy ornot.

- George BernardShaw

Education has produced a vast population able to

read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G. M.

Trevelyan

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of thehour, and the books of all time.- John Ruskin

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the

heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what theyhave asked and desired.

- Martin Luther

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no onethinks of changing himself.- Leo Tolstoy

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courageto pursue them.- Walt Disney

You should set goals beyond your reach so you alwayshave something to live for.- Ted Turner

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It's true -- if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. We needto take luck out of the equation.

- Brad Turk

A business that makes nothing but money is a poorbusiness. - Henry

Ford

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as toseek happiness by changing anything but his owndisposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

- Unknown Author

One half of knowing what you want, is knowing whatyou must give up before you get it. -Sidney Howard

You cannot prevent the birds of care and worry fromflying overhead, but you can stop them from building anest in your head.

- Chinese Proverb

Overnight success happens only in Fairy Tales, TrashyNovels, and Bad Movies. -Ernie J. Zelinski

Being organized is not an end in itself -- it is a vehicle totake you from where you are to where you want to be.

- StephanieWinston

I strongly urge you to consciously consider whatsuccess means to you. Instead of allowing others orsociety to determine when you win, you determine it.

- Pat Heim

An idea unrecorded is an idea often lost! -Zig Ziglar

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Though no one can go back and make a brand newstart, anyone can start from now and make a brandnew ending.

- UnknownAuthor

The greatest discovery of my generation is that ahuman being can alter his life by altering his attitudesof mind.

- WilliamJames

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

- AbrahamLincoln

For everything you have missed, you have gainedsomething else, and for everything you gain, you losesomething else.

- Ralph WaldoEmerson

I will not say I failed 1,000 times, I will say that Idiscovered there are 1,000 ways that can cause failure.

- Thomas AlvaEdison

If you tell the truth, you dont have to rememberanything.

- MarkTwain

Don't be discouraged, it's often the last key in thebunch that opens the lock. -Unknown Author

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for,never get paid for any more than they do.- Elbert Hubbard

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there isalways another chance for you. What we call failure isnot the falling down but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,you'll probably never do much of anything. -Win Borden

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve hissoul's estate. -Henry David Thoreau

I know it seems hard sometimes, but remember onething, through every dark night, there's a bright dayafter that. So no matter how hard it gets, keep yourchest out, keep your head up and handle it.

- Tupac

If we did the things we are capable of, we wouldastound ourselves. -Thomas Alva Edison

He who wants to do a great deal of good at once willnever do anything. -Samuel Johnson

I dont know the key to success, but the key to failureis, trying to please everybody.

- Bill Cosby

If someone feels that they had never made a mistake intheir life, then it means they had never tried a newthing in their life.

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- AlbertEinstein

It is not necessary to blow out other persons' lights to

let your own shine.- Lao Tze

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitudefrom achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help theman with the wrong mental attitude.- Thomas Jefferson

The potential of the average person is like a huge

ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world ofpossibilities waiting to be released and channelledtoward some great good. - Brian Tracy

There is no road too long to the man who advancesdeliberately and without undue haste; there are nohonors too distant to the man who prepares himself forthem with patience.

- Jean De La

Bruyere

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth inaction; actions form habits; habits decide character;and character fixes our destiny.

- Tryon Edwards

I could never have done what I have done without thehabit of punctually, order and diligence, without thedetermination to concentrate myself on one subject ata time. - Charles Dickens

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. Itis best to admit them quickly, and get on withimproving your own innovations.

- Steve Jobs

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people sayyou cannot do. -Walter Bagehot

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein ofwater flowing hidden underground secretly making theground greener.

- ThomasCarlyle

Three sentences for getting success:a) know more than othersb) work more than others

c) expect less than others. - WilliamShakespeare

When a friend is in trouble, dont annoy him by asking ifthere is anything you can do. Think up somethingappropriate and do it.

- Edgar WatsonHowe

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us thatoaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds aremade under pressure.- Peter Marshall

When you hate, the only one that suffers is you,because most of the people you hate dont know it, andthe rest dont care.

- MedgarEvers

You will never find time for anything. If you want timeyou must make it. -Charles Buxton

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A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant manfollows the public opinion.

- Chinese Proverb

All men who have turned out worth anything have hadthe chief hand in their own education.- Walter Scott

Speak when you are angry, and you will make the bestspeech you will ever regret. -

Ambrose Bierce

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-ninepercent perspiration. -

Thomas Alva Edison

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awakeabout them afterward. -Batasar Gracian

Our great glory is not in never failing, but in rising everytime we fall.- Confucius

Thoughts lead on to purposes;purposes go forth in action;actions form habits;habits decide character;and character fixes our destiny.

-TryonEdwards

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all thingsthe most important factor.

- Hesiod

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Success is nothing more than going from failure tofailure with undiminished enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reapsfriendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.- Basil

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes,but in liking what one has to do. -

James M. Barrie

People are successful at the things to which theydevote most of their time and effort. It's a question of

deciding what's important in your life and working hardto achieve it. -The Garcia-Prats

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannotdodge the consequences of dodging ourresponsibilities. - Unknown Author

Small kindness, small courtesies, small considerations,habitual practices, give a greater charm to the

character than the display of greater talents andaccomplishments. - Kelly

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effectivemanagement is discipline, carrying it out. -Stephen Covey

Just because something doesnt do what you planned itto do doesnt mean it's useless. -Thomas Alva Edison

Anyone can become angry, that is easy, but to be angrywith the right person at the right time, and for the rightpurpose and in the right way that is not withineveryone's power and that is not easy.

- Aristotle

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An education isn't how much you have committed tomemory, or even how much you know. It's being ableto differentiate between what you do know and what

you dont. - AnatoleFrance

Any change, even a change for the better, is alwaysaccompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.- Arnold Bennett

Failure doesnt mean you are a failure, it just meansyou haven't succeeded yet. -

Robert H. Schuller

Do more than is required. What is the distancebetween someone who achieves their goals consistentlyand those who spend their lives and careers merelyfollowing? The extra mile.

- Gary RyanBlair

The secret of business is to know something thatnobody else knows. -

Aristotle Onassis

Real riches are the riches possessed inside. -B. C. Forbes

The majority of men meet with failure because of theirlack of persistence in creating new plans to take theplace of those which fail.

- Napoleon Hill

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that addsbalance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

- William ArthurWard

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a

smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honestcompliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of whichhave the potential to turn a life around.

- LeoBuscalgia

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, forwe search last in the likeliest places.- Robert Brault

Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth oftheir work for the public good. -Sara Ebenreck

Have the ability to make and keep friends. - LouiseBorneman

Education would be much more effective if its purposewas to ensure that by the time they leave school every

boy and girl should know how much they do not know,and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

- William Haley

To me success would be to be able to do your very bestin everything you do. - PaulCummings

Sticking to it is the genius. Any other bright-mindedfellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick likehell and made the damn thing work.

- Thomas Alva Edison

If you would not be forgotten,As soon as you are dead and rotten,

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Either write things worth reading,Or do things worth the writing.

- BenjaminFranklin

Code for success:Find your own particular talent. Be big. Be honest. Livewith enthusiasm. Dont let your possessions possessyou. Dont worry about your problems. Look up topeople when you can -- down to no one. Dont cling tothe past. Assume your full share of responsibility in theworld. Pray consistently and constantly.

- ConradHilton

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than ayoung woman who is clean in thought and word anddeed.

- Gordon B.Hinckley

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take longbefore everyone knows.

- C.S. Lewis

Shallow men believe in luck. - Ralph WaldoEmerson

Treat temptation as a fierce-some on-rushing freighttrain. Get off the tracks!! And stay far away from thetrain station.

- Spencer W.Kimball

It's good to have money and the things that money canbuy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while andmake sure that you have not lost the things that moneycannot buy.

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- George HoraceLorimer

There is a difference between being: "Humbly grateful" and

"Grumbly hateful." Which are you? Do you really appreciatewhat you have, or do you grumble even in the face of yourgood fortune?

- G. DonaldGale

Nothing comes without a price. Nothing great will ever beachieved without great men, and men are great only if theyare determined to be so.- Charles de Gaulle

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - awaif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, andhaving it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into yourwork as God has given you.

- ThomasCarlyle

In order to have great happiness you have to have great

pain and unhappiness -- otherwise how would you knowwhen you are happy.

- LeslieCaron

Always keep your promises. Always be on time. Neverforsake right to follow the line of least resistance. It is farbetter to do things the right way than the easy way. It issmart to be honest; stupid to be dishonest.

- T. H. Bell

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what onehas learned in school.- Albert Einstein

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The measure of pleasure is not leisure. The measure ofpleasure is accomplishment. -Unknown Author

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.- Mark Twain

Money doesnt always bring happiness. People with tenmillion dollars are not happier than those with nine milliondollars. - Hobart Brown

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a newdream.- C. S. Lewis

Attitude is the most important thing in our lives. Our livesare 10% what happens to us and 90% what we do with whatlife gives us. Your attitude is an advertisement of yourbeing. - Rulon G. Craven

We try and try and try and try and try and then we get itright.

- Walt

Disney

Life is mostly froth and bubble,Two things stand like stone,Kindness in another's trouble,Courage in your own.

- Adam LindsayGordon

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We donot act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but werather have those because we have acted rightly. We arewhat we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but ahabit. - Aristotle

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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, yourestimate of your value are largely colored by yourenvironment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped,molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people

with whom you come in contact every day.- Orison SwettMarden

When two men in business always agree, one of them isunnecessary.

- William WrigleyJr.

Many people will walk in and out of your life. But only true

friends will leave footprints in your heart.- Unknown Author

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignitygrows with the ability to say no to oneself. -

Abraham Joshua Heschel

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of gettingalong with people, of getting things done. -

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundationwith the bricks that others throw at him or her.

- David Brinkley

"Too many of us wait to do the perfect thing, with the resultwe do nothing. The way to get ahead is to start now. Whilemany of us are waiting until conditions are "just right" beforewe go ahead, others are stumbling along, fortunatelyignorant of the dangers that beset them. By the time we are,in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discoverthat those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in theirblundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start

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now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now,and that you will not know next year, if you wait."

- The William FeatherMagazine

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we'replaying a game. It's business. It's our job, but I don't thinkyou can do well unless you're having fun.

- Derek Jeter

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly thesame number of hours per day that were given to HelenKeller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo daVinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

- H. Jackson Brown

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is thebeginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality.Searching and learning is where the miracle process allbegins. - Jim Rohn

Be more concerned with the value of your word than yourreputation, because your character is what you really are,

while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden

Lack o f money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. - Ken

Hakuta

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get allyou want in life if you help enough other people get whatthey want.

- ZigZiglar

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of

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courage - to move in the opposite direction. - E. F. Schumacher

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few

be well tried before you give them your confidence.- Washington

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. Weare stronger and more resourceful than we know, and wecan endure much more than we think we can.

- Unknown Author

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,the spines of others are often stiffened.

- Billy Graham

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net forcatching days. It is scaffolding on which a worker can standand labour with both hands at sections of time. A scheduleis a mock-up of reason and order -- willed, faked, and sobrought into being. - Annie Dillard

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there

is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you know the difference between education andexperience? Education is when you read the fine print;experience is what you get when you don't.

- Pete Seeger

Whenever possible, respond to a letter (email or textmessage) immediately. The longer you postpone answering,the more lengthy the response needs to be.

- Pat Dorff

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, inwhich we must fervently believe, and upon which we must

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vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - Pablo Picasso

Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of

interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work inbetween? - Buwei Yang Chao

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicingnot just of table manners but of conversation, consideration,tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the otheraccomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

- Judith Martin

It is curious how any making of order makes one feel

mentally ordered, ordered inside.- May Sarton

I have a secret. I make lists. That's how I handle stress. Andwhether they actually help me accomplish more or not, theymake me feel so much better. If I can jot down all the tasksthat swirl around in my head, I shift from feeling deluged andstressed to feeling in control and calm. And this is before Ieven do anything on the list.

- SuzanneRiss

Most people spend their lives going to bed when they're notsleepy and getting up when they are!- Cindy Adams

Circumstances are the rules of the weak: they are but theinstruments of the wise.- Samuel Lover

There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which killscountless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment onedefinitely commits oneself, then, Providence moves too.Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin. Boldness

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has genius, power, and magic in. Begin it now. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you seize an opportunity it creates more opportunities.

- John D.Rockefeller

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at theend of a long day makes that day happier.- Kathleen Norris

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done whatyou could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;

forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day;begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to becumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph WaldoEmerson

If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not inyou.

- W. Clement

Stone

The individual who wants to reach the top in business mustappreciate the might of the force of habit -- and mustunderstand that practices are what create habits. He mustbe quick to break those habits that can break him -- andhasten to adopt those practices that will become the habitsthat help him achieve the success he desires. - John PaulGetty

Every great man has become great, every successful manhas succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powersto one particular channel.

- Orison SwettMarden

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Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are thechildren of your soul -- the blueprints of your ultimateachievements. - Napoleon Hill

You cannot fly with the eagles if you continue to scratch withthe turkeys. - ZigZiglar

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habitallowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be as aspider's web, easy broken through, but if not resisted, it soonbinds us with chains of steel.

- Tryon Edwards

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply yourphysical and mental energies to one problem withoutgrowing weary.

- Thomas Alva Edison

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never toreturn again. Those who use time wisely are rewarded withrich, productive and satisfying lives.

- Robin Sharma

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, andknowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

- Samuel Johnson

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is themedicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. -George Matthew Adams

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percentchance, but you have to think positive, and you have tofight. - Lance Armstrong

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it. -Dalai Lama

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Find people to make up for your lack of know-how and,eventually, you WILL know-how.

- Brad Turk

I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wonderingwhat if?I would keep putting my dreams to the test --- even though itmeant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is theshadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream must learnto live there. - Alex Haley

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and tryingwhen you know you can lose. -

Tom Krause

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be preparedfor changes. - Johann Wolfgangvon Goethe

In calm waters every ship has a good captain. - SwedishProverb

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, ninetimes out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reachesyou. - Calvin Coolidge

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in theworld, the people who do all the work, and the people whothink they do all the work.

- Stella Benson

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is anemergency.

- NatalieGoldberg

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It is a mystery why adults expect perfection from children.Few grownups can get through a whole day without makinga mistake.

- Marcelene

Cox

When a man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity tolead an extraordinary life, has no right to keep it to himself.

- Jacques-YvesCousteau

All great truth passes through three stages: First, it isridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is acceptedas being self-evident.

- ArthurSchopenhauer

Forget about likes and dislikes, they are of no consequence.Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, butit is greatness.

- George BernardShaw

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel inwhich it stands than to anything on which it is poured.- Unknown Author

I believe man was designed for accomplishment, engineeringfor success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

- Zig Ziglar

Dont be fooled by the calendar. There are only as manydays in the year as you make use of. One man gets only aweek's value out of a year while another man gets a fullyear's value out of a week.

- CharlesRichards

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Enemies of yesterday could be friends of today if theyceased retaliation in words and deeds. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. - OscarWilde

Great men are too often unknown, or what is worse, missknown.

- ThomasCarlyle

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and

just as hard to sleep after. - AnneMorrow Lindbergh

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant andchased by the foolish.- Timothy Zahn

Never break four things in your life -- Trust, Promise, Relationand Heart because whey they break they dont make noise

but pains a lot. - Unknown

Author

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to makeothers straight. -Mencius

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, thesmall child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feelthe wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight foryour dreams.

- AshleySmith

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

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- BenjaminDisraeli

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation

determines what you do. Attitude determines how well youdo it. - Lou Holtz

When life hands you lemons . . . make lemonade, sell it onthe corner, invest your profits and, when they mature, go bysome oranges! (Orange juice outsells lemonade by 10 to 1.)

- Brad Turk

A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put firstthings first. Indeed the reason most major goals are not

achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. - Robert J McKain

A problem is a chance for you to do your best thinking. - Duke

Ellington

The future is not some place we are going, but one wecreate. The paths are not found, but made, and the activity

of making them changes both the make and the destination. - John Schaar

Confidence comes not from always being right, but from notfearing to be wrong. -Unknown Author

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you comealive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is peoplewho have come alive.

- Howard Thurman

There are three kinds of people: those who make thingshappen, those who watch things happen, and those whowonder what happened.

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- Lois BorlandHart

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much

something is on your mind and how much it's getting done. - David Allen

For a long time, I let the huge amount of computer-operationinformation intimidate me. Then, I realized I didn't know howmy phone worked, either. But I knew how to make phonecalls. -Sally Williams

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

- Robert GreenIngersoll

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. What yourwords, for they become actions. Watch your actions, forthey become habits. Watch your habits, for they becomecharacter. Watch your character, for it becomes yourdestiny. - Unknown Author

High achievement always takes place in the framework ofhigh expectation. - CharlesKettering

Blessed is he who found his work; let him ask no otherblessedness.

- ThomasCarlyle

There is only one boss; the customer. And he can fireeverybody in the company from the chairman on down,simply by spending his money somewhere else.

- Sam Walton

Leaders are not born. They are made. They are made justlike anything else through hard work. Thats the price we

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have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.- Vince Lombardi

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didnt know

you left open. -John Barrymore

If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in theend, for the world is round and will lead you back to yourdoor.

- Robert Brault

Do you have a plan? Most people plan their vacations betterthan they plan their lives.

- Mary Kay Ash

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they weregoing to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care,kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it withno thought of any reward. Your life will never be the sameagain. - Og Mandino

Everyone has a need for frequent honest praise. -

Dale Carnegie

Certainly will the believers have succeeded:They who are during their prayer humbly submissiveAnd they who turn away from ill speechAnd they who are observant of zakah (charity)And they who guard their private partsExcept from their wives or those their right hands possess,for indeed, they will not be blamed -But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are thetransgressors -And they who are to their trusts and their promises attentiveAnd they who carefully maintain their prayers -

Those are the inheritorsWho will inherit al-Firdaus (Paradise).

They will abide therein eternally.

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- Quran 23:1-12

To every man there comes in his lifetime that specialmoment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder andoffered the chance to do a special thing, unique to him andfitted to his talent; what a tragedy if that moment finds himunprepared or unqualified for the work which would be hisfinest hour. - Winston Churchill

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. - Nicolas Boileau-

Despreaux

Preparation is the key to success in any endeavour. Thegreatest athletes are not always the strongest, fastest andmost gifted -- but are those who have the ability to recognizetheir potential and prepare to meet that potential.

- R. LaVell Edwards

Dont find fault. Find a remedy. -Henry Ford

Great men are said to have four things in common Theyspeak softly, have the capacity for hard work, a deepconviction for their cause, a consuming belief in their abilityto do it. - John D. Hess

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what theydo; and a few by what they are.- Elbert Hubbard

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is theability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when itought to be done, whether you like is or not; it is the firstlesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man'straining begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learnsthoroughly. - Thomas Huxley

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We should all be concerned about the future because we willhave to spend the rest of our lives there. -Charles F. Kettering

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, everyminute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth,slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred.Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thineawareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

- ThomasMann

A beautiful relationship does not depend upon how good we

understand someone but on how well we avoidmisunderstandings.- Unknown Author

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for eachrage leaves him less than he had been before - it takessomething from him.

- LouisL'Amour

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the mostresourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in thiscase, always tomorrow - after you have done your best toachieve success today.

- Maxwell Maltz

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless youdo.

- UnknownAuthor

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. Nomachine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

- Elbert Hubbard

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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably endup somewhere else. - Laurence

J. Peter

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish themto be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.- Thomas A Kempis

Good things don't just happen by themselves. We need todo everything in our power to make them happen.

- Brad Turk

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness ofindividuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me

stronger. - Lou Holtz

Doing nothing is very hard to do you never know whenyou're finished. -Leslie Nielsen

Most great businesses were built with sweat equity. Dosomething small and build it slowly.

- Dan Miller

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;but remember that what you now have was once among thethings you only hoped for.

- Epicurus

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.- Rita Mae

Brown

Sometimes you end up using more energy stressing overyour unfinished tasks than you would if you took a fewminutes to accomplish them.

- Jayme Barrett

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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much.This is always a great satisfaction. -Katherine Mansfield

The mind can store an estimated 100 trillion bits ofinformation -- compared with which a computer's merebillions are virtually amnesiac.

- SharonBegley

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us tocount our blessings.- Eric Hoffer

If you ever wake up without a problem, you better get downon your knees and pray for one, because otherwise you justdied.

- Norman VincentPeale

We must all suffer from one of two pains, the pain ofdiscipline or the pain of regret. The difference is thatdiscipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tonnes.

- Jim Rohn

Every child is an artist -- the problem is how to remain anartist once he grows up. -Unknown Author

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Alwaysremember, you have within you the strength, the patience,and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

- Harriet Tubman

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly withevery new assignment.

- Baltasar Gracian

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others withoutgetting a few drops on yourself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken bettercare of myself. - MickeyMantle

If you dont go after what you want, you'll never have it. Ifyou dont ask, the answer is always no. If you dont stepforward, you're always in the same place.

- Nora Roberts

In all things success depends upon previous preparations,

and withou such preparation there is sure to be failure.- Confucius

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. -Publilius Syrus

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle andshine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.

- Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Man's value is in the few things he creates and not in themany possessions he masses. -Khalil Gibran

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyonecan start today and make a new ending. -Maria Robinson

One who fears limits his activities. Failure is the onlyopportunity to more intelligently begin again.

- Henry Ford

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Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasingbutterflies and puts you to work digging gold. -William Moulton Marsden

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what youhave a burning desire to achieve. - WilfredA. Patterson

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but everytime we repeat the act, we strengthen the strand, add to itanother filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds usirrevocably in thought and act.

- Orison Swett Marden

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it. - MarvaCollins

The difference between a successful person and others is nota lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lackin will.

- Vince Lombardi

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

- Horace

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are somethingto do, something to love, and something to hope for.- Joseph Addison

The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, asettled purpose, an invincible determination can accomplishalmost anything; and in this lies the distinction betweengreat men and little men.

- ThomasFuller

The world is a stage where every man should play a role ofhis own. -William Shakespeare

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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat atriviality as if it were a disaster.- Quentin Crisp

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedythan to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell onour misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

- Voltaire

Wealth is like sea water, the more we drink the thirstier webecome and the same is true of fame. -

Arthur Schopenhauer

When you hate, the only one that suffers is you, becausemost of the people you hate dont know it, and the rest dontcare.- Medgar Evers

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character iswhat God and angels know of us.- Thomas Paine

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awakeabout them afterward.- Batasar Gracian

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weatherbrings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down rootsas deeply as possible.

- Corrie Ten Boom

To identify one's self with the truth is to place one's self inthe heart of a storm from which there is no escape for life.

- D. M. Patton

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing toworship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling

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the word darkness on the walls of his cell. - C. S. Lewis

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you

through life, choose a sense of humour.- Jennifer Jones

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reapsfriendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.

- Basil

Observe with Care:If your lips would keep from slips,Five things observe with care;

Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,And how and when and where.

- UnknownAuthor

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks ofchanging himself. -Leo Tolstoy

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead othersas what he does from day to day to lead himself. -Thomas J. Watson

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come intoreality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication,self-discipline, and effort.- Jesse Owens

The best things in life are nearest:Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at yourfeet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.

Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, commonwork as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily breadare the sweetest things in life.

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- Robert LouisStevenson

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while

on a detour. - UnknownAuthor

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they tryto have more things, or more money, in order to do more ofwhat they want, so they will be happier. The way it actuallyworks is the reverse. You must first be who you really are,then do what you need to do, in order to have what youwant. - Margaret Young

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievementfrom ordinary people.- Brian Tracy

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not counthis joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would seethat every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

A man is as miserable as he thinks he is. -Seneca

It is a thousand times better to have common sense withouteducation than to have education without common sense.- Robert G. IngersollGood management means delegating authority Effectivemanagement is the art of multiplying yourself throughothers. The jobs to delegate are the ones you do best.

- Ezra Taft Benson

Make no little plans. There is nothing in little plans to stirmen's blood. Make big plans. Once a big idea is recorded, itcan never die.

- DanielBurnham

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There is nothing in this world so satisfying as a job well done. - Gordon B.

Hinckley

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessfulmen with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius isalmost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full ofeducated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone areomnipotent. - CalvinCoolidge

The times young people have the most difficulties in their life

are when they move away from God's obedience. -Unknown Author

Twelve Qualities of Success: The value of time. The habit ofperseverance. The pleasure of working. The dignity ofsimplicity. The worth of character. The power of kindness.

The influence of example. The obligation of duty. Thewisdom of economy. The virtue of patience. Theimprovement of talent. The joy of originating.

- MarshallField

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it longenough.- Helen Keller

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in yourschools are the work of many generations. All this is put inyour hands as your inheritance in order that you may receiveit, honour it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on toyour children. - Albert Einstein

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening whenyou'd have preferred to talk. -Doug Larson

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You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than yourincome.

- AbrahamLincoln

Change has a considerable psychological impact on thehuman mind. To the fearful it is threatening because itmeans that things may get worse. To the hopeful it isencouraging because things may get better. To the confidentit is inspiring because the challenge exists to make thingsbetter. - King Whitney

Jr.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing;

disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything.- Unknown Author

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lostalmost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted totake the game's winning shot and missed. I've failed overand over and over again in my life. And that is why Isucceed. - Michael Jordan

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains itsoriginal dimension. - OliverWendell Holmes

Understand that fortune and fame don't equate to success;being true to yourself and finding your happiness makes yousuccessful.

- BradTurk

The price of greatness is responsibility. - WinstonChurchill

Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed tohold my W-2 from and interest statement? Where's themileage log I specifically asked by kept last year?? Where's

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the monthly checking summary? And who's been stuffingVisa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! Howembarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only onein the office. - Cathy

Guisewite

Just because something isn't being done, hasn't been doneor looks like it can't be done, doesn't mean you can't do it.

- Brad Turk

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions areever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, notthe destination.

- Don

Williams

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The onlyhuman institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.- Harold Wildon

The middle of the road is where the white line is, and that'sthe worst place to drive. -Robert Frost

What I lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, notwhat I am to know The thing is to understand myself, tosee what God really wished me to do To find the idea forwhich I can live and die.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Dont worry when there is a solution to the problem. Whenthere is no solution to the problem worrying will not provideit.- Unknown Author

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers ispreserved from lust, greed and anger.

- Abu Bakr

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Just clearing one drawer can open up your heart and mind tonew possibilities. You will immediately feel a sense of reliefand will have more energy to continue the process.

- Jayme Barrett

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. - Zora Neale

Hurston

Procrastination isn't always a bad thing. For starters, it cankeep you from working on tasks that ultimately turn out tobe less important than you thought. - Eric

Abrahamson and David H. Freedman

Of all things you wear, your expression is more important. - Unknown

Author

The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are,assume that you will lose a few. Keep grief to a minimum.It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.

- Jennifer James

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds shouldbe awake earlier than you.

- Abu Bakr

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, whileloving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Lao Tzu

You might ask, 'How can I know if something is God's will?'My answer is, 'If it were not God's will, it woundn't exist evenfor an instant; so if something happens, it must be His will. Ifyou truly enjoyed God's will, you would feel exactly asthough you were in the kingdom of heaven, whateverhappened to you or didn't happen to you.'

- MeisterEckhart

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Some people say it's not what you know, but who you know.I say, find the people you need to know and introduceyourself. - Brad Turk

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across,your ideas won't get you anywhere. -Lee Iacocca

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the serviceof others. - MohandasKaramchand Gandhi

Winners are not afraid of losing, but losers are. Failure is

part of the process of success. People who avoid failure alsoavoid success.

- Robert Kiyosaki

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure isattached. -Churton Collins

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be

fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. Youknow you will never get to the end of the journey. But this,so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory ofthe climb. - Winston Churchill

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradiseshut to him.

- AbuBakr

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to anunderstanding of ourselves.

- Carl Jung

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to paythe price to make them come true.- Leon J. Suenes

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldnt call itgenius. -Michelangelo

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentratingall your energies on a limited set of targets.- Nido Qubein

Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

- Brian Tracy

Most of the important things in the world have beenaccomplished by people who have kept on trying when thereseemed to be no hope at all.

- Dale Carnegie

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what it isone's destiny to do, and then do it. -

Henry Ford

I could never have done what I have done without the habitof punctuality, order and diligence, without thedetermination to concentrate myself on one subject at atime. - Charles Dickens

I look to the future because thats where I'm going to spendthe rest of my life. -George Burns

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which,more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

- William James

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The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,as in what direction we are moving. - OliverWendell Holmes

Your problem is to bridge the gap between where you arenow and the goals you intend to reach.- Earl Nightingale

Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory issubject to the will of God.

- Abu Bakr

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers ona single object, can accomplish something; the strongest, by

dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything.- Thomas Carlyle

Becoming a millionaire is not that difficult, but it is not themost important thing. The most important part of becominga millionaire is the person that you have to become toaccumulate a million dollars in the first place.

- Jim Rohn

Take care of spare moments. They are the golden dust oftime. -Unknown Author

The Golden Rule for every businessman is this: 'Put yourselfin your customer's place. - OrisonSwett Marden

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It isone of the ways in which a person defines himself, measureshis worth and his humanity.

- Peter Drucker

Persistence is to character of man as carbon is to steel. -

Napoleon Hill

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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive longafter your gold and good health has vanished.- Og Mandino

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchasepower. -Benjamin Franklin

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It'sthe life in your years.- Abraham Lincoln

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity. A

pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.- Winston Churchill

One of the things my parents have taught me is never listento other people's expectations. You should live your own lifeand live up to your own expections, and those are the onlythings I really care about.

- Tiger Woods

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before youcan set out for them.- Les Brown

What you can't fix, change or impact -- You can't worryabout.

- Brad Turk

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to writea book about it. -Benjamin Disraeli

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wisegrows it under his feet. -

James Oppenheim

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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are thefew who have the ambition and will power to developthemselves.

- Herbert N. Casson

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say youcannot do.- Walter Bagehot

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continualcheerfulness.

- Montaigne

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools

talk because they have to say something.- Plato

All men who have turned out worth anything have had thechief hand in their own education.- Walter Scott

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I havenot seen.

- Emerson

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.-

Elbert Hubbard

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and onewho has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry aboutanything whatsoever. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

In theory, there is no difference between theory andpractice; In practice, there is.- Chuck Reid

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experiencecomes from bad judgment.- Barry LePatner

A leader must have skin of a rhino, compassion of a mother,courage of a soldier, patience of a saint. -Unknown Author

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and incold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap thevigor of the mind. -Leonardo da Vinci

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life -- think of it,

dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves,every part of your body, be full of that idea. This is the wayto success.

- Swami Vivekananda

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never triedanything new.

- AlbertEinstein

Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to rememberwhat you said. -Mark Twain

When everyone is against you, it means that you areabsolutely wrong - or absolutely right.

- Albert Guinon

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - GeorgeBernard Shaw

You shall not enter Paradise so long asyou do not affirm belief in God andyou will not believe as long as you do

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not love one another. Should I notdirect you to a thing which, if you do,will foster love amongst you: make it ahabit of saluting one another as-salamu alaikum (may peace be uponyou).

- Muhammad the Messenger ofGod

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