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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.”
― Brian Tracy

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
― Dale Carnegie

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Every person has the power to make others happy.
Some do it simply by entering a room
others by leaving the room.
Some individuals leave trails of gloom;
others, trails of joy.
Some leave trails of hate and bitterness;
others, trails of love and harmony.
Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism;
others trails of faith and optimism.
Some leave trails of criticism and resignation;
others trails of gratitude and hope.
What kind of trails do you leave?”
― William Arthur Ward

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never confuse Motion with Action.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Start with the end in mind. ”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
― Henry Ford

“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”
― Brian Tracy

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs”
― Henry Ford

“Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.”
― Seth Godin

“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.”
― Deepak Chopra

“If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position. ”
― Seth Godin

“Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.”
― Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods