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If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.
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But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.
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Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality
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We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.
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If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
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We are all creatures of habit. We can do most things without even thinking about them; our bodies take charge and do them for us.
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If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
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Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.
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Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service ... build ... work ... dream ... create! Do this and you’ll find there is no limit
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You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.
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Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them.
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The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.
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Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
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Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.
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It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.
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Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
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People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.
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A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.
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The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.
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Failures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.
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If you'll begin to develop and maintain an attitude that says yes to life and the world, you'll be astonished at the changes you'll see.
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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
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Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.
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Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
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