Question:
What are some life quotes?
Concentration
"What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy."
-- Brian Tracy
"When every physical and mental resource is focused, oneís power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort." -- Brian Tracy
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles." -- Claude M. Bristol
"The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. When you work, work. When you play, play. Donít mix the two." -- Jim Rohn
Mistakes
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything."
--Bishop W. C. Magee
Courage
"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't
accept the fact that I can do something else."
--Dolly Parton
"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the
calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires
courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
--Maxwell Maltz
"No one is more likely to make a mistake than the man who
acts only on reflection."
--Luc de Clapiers, Marquis Vauvenargues
Take your hunches seriously:
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed
away just below the conscious level."
--Dr. Joyce Brothers
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
--Anon.
Fear/Criticism
Take criticism in your stride - otherwise you'll trip and
fall flat on your face:
"To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
--Elbert Hubbard
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It
fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It
calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."
--Winston Churchill
"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.
Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders
hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle."
--Dorothy Thompson
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning
that does the work."
--Mark Twain
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best
therapist."
--Gail Sheehy
Integrity
"The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct." -- Blaise Pascal
"Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside."
-- Brian Tracy
"The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The Inside-Out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."
-- Stephen Covey
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." -- Zig Ziglar
Just do it
"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people
being afraid to go straight at things."
--William J. Locke
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