The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.
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Brian Tracy
It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
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Anthony Robbins
You don’t let the guy with the broom control how many elephants are in the parade.
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Merlin Mann
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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Horace Mann
Kevin Rose sits down with Tim Ferriss, author of the New York Times best-selling books “The 4-Hour Workweek” and “The 4-Hour Body” for a chat about his life growing up, and the challenges of writing a book. Plus, he gives Kevin a few details about his upcoming book, “The 4-Hour Chef”.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Johann von Goethe
The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
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Albert Einstein
Reduce your plan to writing…. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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Napoleon Hill
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Winston Churchill
Self-control is self-mastery. It is kingship over all life. At the center of your being sits yourself. Your seat ought to be a throne. If you are not in control, if there are any forces in your nature that are unruly, that do not acknowledge your sway, you are not the king you should be. Part of your kingdom is in insurrection. The strength of your life is divided. The strong man is he whose whole being is subject to him.
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James Russell Miller, The Beauty of Self-Control, 1911
Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.The one requirement for success in our business lives is effort. Either you make the commitment to get results or you don’t.
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Mark Cuban
Taking Risks
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool; To weep is to risk appearing sentimental; To reach out for another is to risk involvement; To expose feelings is to risk exposing true self; To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss; To love is to risk not being loved in return; To live is to risk dying; To hope is to risk despair; To try is to risk failure; But risk must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing; The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing; He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love and live; Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave and has forfeited freedom’ Only a person who risks is free.
-William Arthur Ward
Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. (Can I skip flossing just this one time?) Daniel Goldstein makes tools that help us imagine ourselves over time, so that we make smart choices for Future Us.
Try to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
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Sydney Smith
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
Dave Gambrill is a corporate trainer, life coach, lifehacker, social media geek, entrepreneur, lacrosse enthusiast, speaker, author, lifestyle designer, and family guy. You can find other ways to get in touch at www.gambrill.com.