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The Smartest Words

Ever Spoken:1001 Timeless Quotes

Compiled by Lee Jenkins

A Better Choice Publishing


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The Smartest Words Ever Spoken:1001 Timeless Quotes

Copyright 2010 Lee Jenkins

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To all the my Facebook page fans.

You connue to inspire me with your comments and show that

a posive atude is the start of all good things.

hp://www.facebook.com/ConceiveBelieveAchieve

To Gretchen, who understands, inspires

and puts up with me.


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Ive always been inspired by the meless thoughts of others

who seem to have been able to shed the shackles of worldliness

and bring their minds to a higher plane. They raise my mental

state, help me aspire higher, think bigger and become the

person I know I can be.

I know this collecon of some of my favorites will do the same

for you.


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Contents

ACCEPTANCE ..................................................................... 7

ACHIEVEMENT .................................................................. 10ACTION ............................................................................. 15

ATTITUDE .......................................................................... 20

CHANGE ............................................................................ 24

CHOICE ............................................................................. 28

CONFIDENCE .................................................................... 31

DECISION .......................................................................... 35DESIRE .............................................................................. 41

DREAMS............................................................................ 46

FAITH ................................................................................ 49

FEAR ................................................................................. 55

FOCUS ............................................................................... 60

FORGIVENESS ................................................................... 64FRIENDSHIP ...................................................................... 68

GOALS ............................................................................... 71

GRATITUDE ....................................................................... 77

HAPPINESS ........................................................................ 82

HOPE ................................................................................ 87

IMAGINATION ................................................................... 89PASSION ............................................................................ 94

PATIENCE .......................................................................... 97

PERCEPTION ..................................................................... 99

PERSISTENCE & PERSEVERENCE ....................................... 104

PROSPERITY ...................................................................... 109

RELATIONSHIPS................................................................. 111RESPONSIBILITY................................................................ 113

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION ................................................ 116

THOUGHTS ....................................................................... 122

WEALTH ............................................................................ 126

WISDOM ........................................................................... 130


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The Smartest Words Ever Spoken7

ACCePtAnCe

When you nd peace within yourself, you become the1.

kind of person who can live at peace with others.

- Peace Pilgrim

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret2. for the past and fear of the future.

- Fulton Oursler

Being happy doesnt mean that everything is perfect.3.

It means that youve decided to look beyond the

imperfecons.

- Unknown

As you become more clear about who you really are, youll4.

be beer able to decide what is best for you - the rst me

around.

- Oprah Winfrey

Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving5.

for the same thing that movates the innocent baby: Loveand acceptance

- Lily Fairchilde

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but6.

just slides into it by the gravitaon of his nature, and

swings there as easily as a star.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but theres7.

all the dierence in the world. Apathy fails to disnguish

between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance

makes that disncon. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-acon;

acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

- Arthur Gordon

ACCEPTANCE

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The Smartest Words Ever Spoken 8

ACCEPTANCE

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who8.

has just done you a small favor wish that he might have

done you a greater one.

- Marn Luther King, Jr.

That is the denion of faith -- acceptance of that which9.

we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

- Dan Brown

California sunlight - sweet Calcua rain - Honolulu10.

starbright - the song remains the same.

- Led Zeppelin

But there isnt any second half of myself waing to plug in11.

and make me whole. Its there. Im already whole.

- Sally Field

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of12.

the facts of a situaon. Then deciding what youre going todo about it.

- Kathleen Casey Theisen

If a ship has been sunk, I cant bring it up. If it is going13.

to be sunk, I cant stop it. I can use my me much beer

working on tomorrows problem than by freng about

yesterdays. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldnt

last long.

- Admiral Ernest J. King

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy14.

with who you are, and not who people think you are.

- Goldie Hawn

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-15.altering lessons.

- Jessica Lange

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ACCEPTANCE

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he16.

or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just

because theyre alive and human.

- Albert Ellis

Acceptance of ones life has nothing to do with17.

resignaon; it does not mean running away from the

struggle. On the contrary, it means accepng it as it

comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suering, of

psychological complexes and injusces.

- Paul Tournier

Acceptance of what has happened is the rst step to18.

overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

- William James

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense19.

of being lovable without having to qualify for that

acceptance.- Paul Tournier

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.20.

- George Orwell

The rst step toward change is awareness. The second21.

step is acceptance.

- Nathaniel Branden

The greatest gi that you can give to others is the gi of22.

uncondional love and acceptance.

- Brian Tracy

The keys to paence are acceptance and faith. Accept23.

things as they are, and look realiscally at the worldaround you. Have faith in yourself and in the direcon you

have chosen.

- Ralph Marston


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ACCEPTANCE - ACHIEVEMENT

ACHIeVeMent

When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain24.

undecided; nothing will ever change. All we need to do is

want to achieve something great and then simply to do it.

Never think of failure for what we think, will come about.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The results you achieve will be in direct proporon to the25.

eort you apply.

- Denis Waitley

The truth of the maer is that theres nothing you cant26.

accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that youre

absolutely commied to achieving, (2) Youre willing to

take massive acon, (3) You noce whats working or not,

and (4) You connue to change your approach unl you

achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along

the way.

- Anthony Robbins

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that27.others can achieve it as well.

- Abraham Lincoln

Build this day on a foundaon of pleasant thoughts. Never28.

fret at any imperfecons that you fear may impede your

progress. Remind yourself, as oen as necessary, that you

are a creature of God and have the power to achieve anydream by liing up your thoughts. You can y when you

decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated

again. Let the vision in your heart be in your lifes blueprint.

Smile!

- Og Mandino


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ACHIEVEMENT

Goals are a means to an end, not the ulmate purpose of29.

our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus

and move us in a direcon. The only reason we really

pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in

the long term; its who you become, as you overcome the

obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give

you the deepest and most long-lasng sense of fulllment.

- Anthony Robbins

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But30.

the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that

you will achieve the security that you desire.

- Brian Tracy

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to31.

possess superhuman powers to achieve

- Napoleon Hill

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is32.

the direct result of his own thoughts

- James Allen

You never achieve success unless you like what you are33.

doing.

- Dale Carnegie

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.34.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.35.

- Plutarch

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to36.learn starng from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely,

posively have to nd people who have already paid the

price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve

our goals.

- Brian Tracy


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ACHIEVEMENT

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your37.

grandest dreams. Imaginaon plus innovaon equals

realizaon.

- Denis Waitley

With our eyes xed on the future, but recognizing the38.

realies of today, we will achieve our desny to be as a

shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.

- Ronald Reagan

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled39.

success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you.Achieve! Achieve!

- Andrew Carnegie

One must marry ones feelings to ones beliefs and ideas.40.

That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of

harmony in ones life.

- Napoleon Hill

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond41.

your present circumstances unless you change.

- Les Brown

The person determined to achieve maximum success42.

learns the principle that progress is made one step at a

me. A house is built one brick at a me. Football games

are won a play at a me. A department store grows bigger

one customer at a me. Every big accomplishment is a

series of lile accomplishments.

- David Joseph Schwartz

The three great essenals to achieve anything worthwhile43.

are, rst, hard work; second, sck-to-iveness; third,common sense.

- Thomas Alva Edison


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ACHIEVEMENT

A person should set his goals as early as he can and49.

devote all his energy and talent to geng there. With

enough eort, he may achieve it. Or he may nd something

that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no maerwhat the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

- Walt Disney

The person with a xed goal, a clear picture of his desire,50.

or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repeon,

to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus

enabled, thanks to its generave and sustaining power, to

realize his goal in a minimum of me and with a minimum

of physical eort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step

by step you will achieve realizaon, for all your facules

and powers become directed to that end.

- Claude M. Bristol

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal51.

and career life, you must become a worthwhile person inyour own self-development.

- Brian Tracy

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through52.

school. You somemes get by, perhaps even get good

grades, but if you dont pay the price day in and day out,

youll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you studyor develop an educated mind.

- Stephen R. Covey

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream53.

it, you can become it.

- William Arthur Ward

What a great discrepancy there is between men and the54.results they achieve! It is due to the dierence in their

power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and

concentrang them upon one point

- Orison Swe Marden


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ACHIEVEMENT

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve.55.

Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his

achievement muscle. Its a strengthening of his powers of

accomplishment.- Eric Buerworth

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the56.

one who oers faithful service in small maers. This is

the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and

lasng.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.57.

- James Allen

ACtIon

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always58.

someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always

dicules arising which tempt you to believe that your

crics are right. To map out a course of acon and follow itto an end requires courage.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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ACTION

It is not the cric who counts; not the man who points59.

out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of

deeds could have done them beer. The credit belongs

to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face ismarred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly;

who errs and comes short again and again; because there

is not eort without error and shortcomings; but who

does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great

enthusiasm, the great devoon, who spends himself in

a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the

triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if hefails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place

shall never be with those cold and mid souls who know

neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not60.

enough; we must do.


Thinking is easy, acng is dicult, and to put ones61.

thoughts into acon is the most dicult thing in the

world.


I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing62.is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough;

we must do.

- Leonardo da Vinci

Dont wait. The me will never be just right.63.

- Napoleon Hill

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would64.hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le, and

could say, I used everything you gave me.

- Erma Bombeck


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ACTION

The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your65.

acons, the more credibility you will have

- Brian Koslow

I never worry about acon, but only about inacon66.

- Winston Churchill

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.67.

- Charles F. Keering

Everything you want is out there waing for you to ask.68.

Everything you want also wants you. But you have to takeacon to get it.

- Jules Renard

Acon is the real measure of intelligence.69.

- Napoleon Hill

The possibilies are numerous once we decide to act and70.

not react.

- George Bernard Shaw

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for71.

which we are accountable.

- Moliere

The ancestor of every acon is a thought.72.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To map out a course of acon and follow it to an end73.

requires courage


Great acts are made up of small deeds.74.

- Lao Tzu

The path to success is to take massive, determined75.

acon.

- Anthony Robbins


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ACTION

Beings are owners of their acon, heirs of their acon.76.

- Buddha

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but77.

few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not

enough! You must take acon.

- Anthony Robbins

Movaon is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps78.

you going.

- Jim Rohn

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of79.

others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for

you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

- Katherine Manseld

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached,80.

dont adjust the goals, adjust the acon steps.- Confucius

Whatever you do may seem insignicant, but it is most81.

important that you do it

- Mahatma Gandhi

You may never know what results come of your acon,82.

but if you do nothing there will be no result- Mahatma Gandhi

Oen the dierence between a successful person and83.

a failure is not one has beer abilies or ideas, but the

courage that one has to bet on ones ideas, to take a

calculated risk - and to act.

- Andre Malraux

The only cure for grief is acon.84.

- G. H. Lewes


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ACTION

Success seems to be connected with acon. Successful85.

people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont

quit.

- Conrad Hilton

Behave so the aroma of your acons may enhance the86.

general sweetness of the atmosphere.

- Henry David Thoreau

We become just by performing just acons, temperate by87.

performing temperate acons, brave by performing brave

acons.- Aristotle

Dreams pass into the reality of acon. From the acons88.

stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces

the highest form of living.

- Anais Nin

Words may show a mans wit, but acons his meaning89.

- Benjamin Franklin

Inacon breeds doubt and fear. Acon breeds condence90.

and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home

and think about it. Go out and get busy.

- Dale Carnegie

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to91.

change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person

you would like to become. Take acon on your behaviour.

Too many people want to feel, then take acon. This never

works.

- John Maxwell

Acon may not bring happiness but there is no happiness92.

without acon.

- William James


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ACTION

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to acons,93.

acons form habits, habits decide character, and character

xes our desny

- Tryon Edwards

Its the lile things you do that can make a big dierence.94.

What are you aempng to accomplish? What lile thing

can you do today that will make you more eecve? You

are probably only one step away from greatness.

- Bob Proctor

High achievers spot rich opportunies swily, make big95.decisions quickly and move into acon immediately. Follow

these principles and you can make your dreams come

true.

- Robert H. Schuller

AttItUDe

Seek out that parcular mental aribute which makes you96.

feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes

the inner voice which says, This is the real me, and whenyou have found that atude, follow it.

- William James

Any fact facing us is not as important as our atude97.

toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The

way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever

do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact becauseyou think you are.

- Norman Vincent Peale


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ATTITUDE

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact106.

that people act in a certain way. We can not change the

inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one

string we have, and that is our atude.- Charles R. Swindoll

The greatest discovery of any generaon is that a human107.

being can alter his life by altering his atude.

- William James

Happiness doesnt depend on any external condions, it is108.

governed by our mental atude- Dale Carnegie

The one thing you cant take away from me is the way109.

I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of

ones freedoms is to choose ones atude in any given

circumstance.

- Viktor Frankl

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings110.

to you as by the atude you bring to life; not so much by

what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at

what happens.

- Kahlil Gibran

Whenever youre in conict with someone, there is one111.

factor that can make the dierence between damaging

your relaonship and deepening it. That factor is atude.

- William James

There is lile dierence in people, but that lile dierence112.

makes a big dierence. The lile dierence is atude. The

big dierence is whether it is posive or negave.- W. Clement Stone

Atudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and113.

habits can be acquired. An acon repeated becomes an

atude realized.

- Paul Myer


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ATTITUDE

Atude is more important than the past, than educaon,114.

than money, than circumstances, than what people do or

say. It is more important than appearance, giedness, or

skill.- W. C. Fields

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental atude115.

from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man

with the wrong mental atude.

- Thomas Jeerson

I believe the single most signicant decision I can make116.on a day-to-day basis is my choice of atude. It is more

important than my past, my educaon, my bankroll, my

successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people

think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my

posion. Atude keeps me going or cripples my progress.

It alone fuels my re or assaults my hope. When my

atudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valleytoo deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great

for me.

- Charles R. Swindoll

If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change117.

it, change your atude.

- Maya Angelou

A posive atude may not solve every problem but it118.

makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.

- Grant Fairley

It is our atude at the beginning of a dicult undertaking119.

which, more than anything else, will determine its

successful outcome.- William James

For success, atude is equally as important as ability.120.

- Harry F. Banks


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ATTITUDE

A convicon of self-worth and passion for ideals fuse in121.

a life atude that is posive, free, noble and spiritually

enhancing.

- Bill Jay

It is very important to generate a good atude, a good122.

heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both

the short term and the long term for both yourself and

others will come.

- Dalai Lama

Excellence is not a skill. It is an atude.123.- Ralph Marston

CHAnGe

Acon and reacon, ebb and ow, trial and error, change124.

- this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-condence,

fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of

hope, progress.

- Bruce Barton

All changes, even the most longed for, have their125.

melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of

ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter

another.

- Anatole France

Always remember that the future comes one day at a126.

me.

- Dean Acheson

Any change, even a change for the beer, is always127.

accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

- Arnold Benne


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ATTITUDE - CHANGE

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new128.

evils; for me is the greatest innovator.

- Francis Bacon

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only129.

human instuon which rejects progress is the cemetery.

- Harold Wilson

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we130.

should rst examine it and see whether it is not something

that could beer be changed in ourselves.

- Carl Jung

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. 131.

- Frederick Douglass

If we dont change, we dont grow. If we dont grow, we132.

arent really living.

- Gail Sheehy

If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change133.

it, change your atude.

- Maya Angelou

Its the most unhappy people who most fear change. 134.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be135.

prepared for changes.


The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has136.

brought progress.

- Charles Keering

They must oen change, who would be constant in137.

happiness or wisdom.

- Confucius


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CHANGE

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not138.

altered for the beer designedly.

- Francis Bacon

Things do not change; we change. 139.


Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom140.

awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

- Frank Herbert

If you dont like something change it; if you cant change141.it, change the way you think about it.

- Mary Engelbreit

When we are no longer able to change a situaon, we are142.

challenged to change ourselves.

- Victor Frankl

Change always comes bearing gis.143.

- Price Pritche

The only dierence between a rut and a grave is their144.

dimensions.

- Ellen Glasgow

Growth is the only evidence of life.145.- John Henry Newman

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alteraons.146.

- Faith Baldwin

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an147.

irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with

a foolish one.

- William H. Seward

The birds are molng. If only man could molt also - his148.

mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless

passions.

- James Allen


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CHANGE

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing149.

water, and breeds reples of the mind.

- William Blake

What you have become is the price you paid to get what150.

you used to want.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable151.

and free of conict have not learned their history.

- Joan Wallach Sco

Aer youve done a thing the same way for two years,152.

look it over carefully. Aer ve years, look at it with

suspicion. And aer ten years, throw it away and start all

over.

- Alfred Edward Perlman

Connuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,153. leng us stretch and grow and reach new heights.

- Pauline R. Kezer

If you would aain to what you are not yet, you must154.

always be displeased by what you are. For where you are

pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep

adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

- Saint Augusne

A good queson is never answered. It is not a bolt to be155.

ghtened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear

more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of

idea.

- John Ciardi

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends156.

some thing.

- Paul Valery


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CHANGE

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot157.

change, the courage to change the one I can, and the

wisdom to know its me.

- Unknown

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the158.

tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run

over him.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he159.

takes my measurements anew each me he sees me. Therest go on with their old measurements and expect me to

t them.


CHoICe

Every human has four endowments- self awareness,160.

conscience, independent will and creave imaginaon.

These give us the ulmate human freedom... The power to

choose, to respond, to change.- Stephen R. Covey

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we161.

are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to

keep them beneath the surface.

- Debbie Ford

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,162.

both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the

process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of

your life. You can nd the freedom that comes from being

in charge of yourself.

- Robert F. Benne


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CHANGE - CHOICE

Its choice--not chance--that determines your desny.163.

- Jean Nidetch

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and164.

there is no longer any queson of choice, because all you

have staked will be lost if you look back. Lifes point of no

return.

- Dag Hammarskjold

Be miserable. Or movate yourself. Whatever has to be165.

done, its always your choice.

- Wayne Dyer

Choose your love, Love your choice.166.

- Thomas S. Monson

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from167.

something. Where are your choices taking your life? What

do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes orno to in life?

- Eric Allenbaugh

There are three constants in life... change, choice and168.

principles.

- Stephen R. Covey

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the169.power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of

choice.

- Ayn Rand

When you have to make a choice and dont make it, that170.

is in itself a choice.

- William James

Every choice you make has an end result.171.

- Zig Ziglar


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CHOICE

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday172.

regarding the atude we will embrace for that day.

- Charles R. Swindoll

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.173.

- George Eliot

Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals174.

which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for

ethical value is within man whose future may largely be

determined by the choice he make


The self is not something ready-made, but something in175.

connuous formaon through choice of acon.

- John Dewey

Desny is no maer of chance. It is a maer of choice: It is176.

not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.- William Jennings Bryan

We choose what atudes we have right now. And its a177.

connuing choice.

- John Maxwell

You and I are essenally innite choice-makers. In178.

every moment of our existence, we are in that eld ofall possibilies where we have access to an innity of

choices.

- Deepak Chopra

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human179.

choice.

- George Eliot

It is your own convicons which compels you; that is,180.

choice compels choice. Epictetus


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ConFIDenCe

People who ask condently get more than those who181.

are hesitant and uncertain. When youve gured out what

you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and

condence.

- Jack Caneld

The greatest waste in the world is the dierence between182.

what we are and what we could become.

-Ben Herbster

Your past is not your potenal. In any hour you can183.

choose to liberate the future.

-Marilyn Ferguson

Quesons provide the key to unlocking our unlimited184.

potenal.

- Anthony Robbins

We all have possibilies we dont know about. We can do185.

things we dont even dream we can do.- Dale Carnegie

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to186.

the people who are perfect. But many of us are nding out

that trying to be perfect is costly.

- Debbie Ford

Everything you need you already have. You are complete187.right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprence

person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness

must be understood by you and experienced in your

thoughts as your own personal reality.

- Wayne Dyer


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CHOICE - CONFIDENCE

Condence comes not from always being right but from188.

not fearing to be wrong.

- Peter T. Mcintyre

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless189.

condence in our own powers.


I was always looking outside myself for strength and190.

condence but it comes from within. It is there all the

me.

- Anna Freud

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable191.

you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles

will return, the sun will break out, the music will play,

and you will nally be able to move forward the life that

God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and

condence.- Og Mandino

Dont back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for192.

your beliefs builds self-condence and self-esteem.

- Oprah Winfrey

All you need in this life is ignorance and condence, and193.

then success is sure.

- Mark Twain

When youre a beauful person on the inside, there is194.

nothing in the world that can change that about you.

Jealousy is the result of ones lack of self-condence, self-

worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you cant accept

yourself, then certainly no one else will.- Sasha Azevedo

Condence is going aer Moby Dick in a rowboat and195.

taking the tartar sauce with you.

- Zig Ziglar


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CONFIDENCE

Experience tells you what to do; condence allows you to196.

do it.

- Stan Smith

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and197.

condence.

- Mark Twain

Who has condence in himself will gain the condence of198.

others.

- Leib Lazarow

Whatever we expect with condence becomes our own199.

self-fullling prophecy.

- Brian Tracy

With realizaon of ones own potenal and self-200.

condence in ones ability, one can build a beer world.

- Dalai Lama

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilies! Without a201.

humble but reasonable condence in your own powers you

cannot be successful or happy.


Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must202.

have perseverance and above all condence in ourselves.We must believe that we are gied for something, and that

this thing, at whatever cost, must be aained.

- Marie Curie

If you have no condence in self, you are twice defeated203.

in the race of life. With condence, you have won even

before you have started.- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Condence is contagious; so is lack of condence204.

- Vince Lombardi


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CONFIDENCE

Condence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the213.

sacredness of obligaons, on faithful protecon and on

unselsh performance. Without them it cannot live.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

If I have lost condence in myself, I have the universe214.

against me.


Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the215.

greatest treasure. Condence is the greatest friend. Non-

being is the greatest joy.- Lao Tzu

DeCIsIon

Its in your moments of decision that your desny is216.

shaped.

- Anthony Robbins

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is217.

nothing you have to do.- Denis Waitley

The best years of your life are the ones in which you218.

decide your problems are your own. You do not blame

them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You

realize that you control your own desny.

- Albert Ellis

The possibilies are numerous once we decide to act and219.

not react.



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CONFIDENCE - DECISION

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her:220.

but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide

how to play the cards in order to win the game.

- Voltaire

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.221.

- Bill Cosby

Build this day on a foundaon of pleasant thoughts. Never222.

fret at any imperfecons that you fear may impede your

progress. Remind yourself, as oen as necessary, that you

are a creature of God and have the power to achieve anydream by liing up your thoughts. You can y when you

decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated

again. Let the vision in your heart be in your lifes blueprint.

Smile!

- Og Mandino

You are the person who has to decide. Whether youll do223.it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your

mind. Whether youll lead or will linger behind. Whether

youll try for the goal thats afar. Or just be contented to

stay where you are.

- Edgar A. Guest

The only person you are desned to become is the person224.

you decide to be.


Whatever course you decide upon, there is always225.

someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always

dicules arising which tempt you to believe that your

crics are right. To map out a course of acon and follow it

to an end requires courage.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more dicult, and therefore more precious,226.

than to be able to decide.

- Napoleon Bonaparte


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DECISION

The happiest people are those who think the most227.

interesng thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a

means of mental development, who love good music, good

books, good pictures, good company, good conversaon,are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only

happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in

others.

- William Lyon Phelps

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own228.

responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty

responsibility, and not lightly to be ung aside at the

bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty

catchphrases of policians. Each must for himself alone

decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course

is patrioc and which isnt. You cannot shirk this and be

a man. To decide against your convicons is to be an

unqualied and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to

your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone

of all the naon shall decide one way, and that way be the

right way according to your convicons of the right, you

have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold

up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.

- Mark Twain

There are two ways of being happy: We must either229.diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do

- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for

himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

- Benjamin Franklin

You cant ask for what you want unless you know what it230.

is. A lot of people dont know what they want or they wantmuch less than they deserve. First you have gure out what

you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it.

Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you

have to have the guts to ask for it.

- Barbara De Angelis


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DECISION

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide231.

your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one

to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gi is yours - it is an

amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for thequality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

- Bob Moawad

There Is A Voice Inside Of You, That Whispers All Day232.

Long, I Feel That This Is Right For Me, I Know That This Is

Wrong. No Teacher, Preacher, Parent, Friend Or Wise Man

Can Decide Whats Right For You- Just Listen To The Voice

That Speaks Inside.

- Shel Silverstein

Our ulmate freedom is the right and power to decide233.

how anybody or anything outside ourselves will aect us.

- Stephen R. Covey

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to234.exchange for it. Establish your priories and go to work.

- H. L. Hunt

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not235.

because anybody says so, not because youre successful,

not because you make a lot of money -- but because you

decide to believe it and for no other reason.

- Wayne Dyer

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test236.

our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment,

there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened

or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not

wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough

me for us to decide whether or not to accept our desny.- Paulo Coelho


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DECISION

Every noble work is bound to face problems and237.

obstacles. It is important to check your goal and movaon

thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and

reasonable. Ones acons should be good for others, andfor oneself as well. Once a posive goal is chosen, you

should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it

is not realized, at least there will be no regret.

- Dalai Lama

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light238.

of creave altruism or in the darkness of destrucve

selshness.


You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.239.

You can steer yourself in any direcon you choose. Youre

on your own. And you know what you know. You are the

guy wholl decide where to go.

- Dr. Seuss

Our power is in our ability to decide.240.

- Richard Buckminster Fuller

Ive connued to recognize the power individuals have to241.

change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an

instant. Ive learned that the resources we need to turn our

dreams into reality are within us, merely waing for the

day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

- Anthony Robbins

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires242.

great strength to decide on what to do.

- Elbert Hubbard

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you243.

another, before you do anything, you should rst decide

whether you have a beer head or a beer heart

- Marilyn vos Savant


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DECISION

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on244.

what you think is right and sck to it.

- T.S. Eliot

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish245.

any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded

as a parent and you will have given your children the

greatest of all blessings.

- Brian Tracy

Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is246.

potenally good or evil, and its up to him and only him(through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to

be.

- Ayn Rand

The day you decide to do it is your lucky day247.

- Japanese Proverb

Everything starts with yourself / with you making up your248.

mind about what youre going to do with your life. I tell

kids that its a cruel world, and that the world will bend

them either le or right, and its up to them to decide

which way to bend.

- Tony Dorse

Every man goa right to decide his own desny.249.- Bob Marley

The most dicult thing is the decision to act, the rest250.

is merely tenacity. The fears are paper gers. You can do

anything you decide to do. You can act to change and

control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own

reward.- Amelia Earhart


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DECISION

DesIRe

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is251.

in your own thinking.

- Robert H. Schuller

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move252. the hearts of men.

- Goethe

Your hopes, dreams and aspiraons are legimate. They253.

are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above

the storms, if you only let them.

- William James

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of254.

freedom and benet.


Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.255.

- Jim Rohn

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the256.

energy and the will to win.

- Denis Waitley

The rst principle of success is desire - knowing what you257.

want. Desire is the planng of your seed.

- Robert Collier

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and258.

that is deniteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one

wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

- Napoleon Hill


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DECISION - DESIRE

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly259.

enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything

you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with

singleness of purpose.- Abraham Lincoln

The starng point of all achievement is desire260.

- Napoleon Hill

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely261.

believe, and enthusiascally act upon must inevitably come

to pass.- Paul J. Meyer

Human behavior ows from three main sources: desire,262.

emoon, and knowledge

- Plato

Reduce your plan to wring. The moment you complete263. this, you will have denitely given concrete form to the

intangible desire.

- Napoleon Hill

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a264.

nucleus with power to aract to itself everything needed

for its fulllment.

- Robert Collier

Create a denite plan for carrying out your desire and265.

begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan

into acon.

- Napoleon Hill

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on266.things we desire not things we fear.

- Brian Tracy


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DESIRE

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But267.

the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that

you will achieve the security that you desire.

- Brian Tracy

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of268.

freedom and benet.


Thoughts mixed with deniteness of purpose, persistence,269.

and a burning desire are powerful things.

- Napoleon Hill

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man270.

from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the

divine

- Kahlil Gibran

A creave man is movated by the desire to achieve, not271. by the desire to beat others

- Ayn Rand

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the272.

dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how

easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as

your desires, unless you make them so.

- Marcia Wieder

Boredom: the desire for desires273.

- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world,274.

to aim at doing something which shall really increase the

happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is achoice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good

haven to sail for.

- Henry Van Dyke


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DESIRE

Imaginaon is the beginning of creaon. You imagine275.

what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you

create what you will.


Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying276.

power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick

ourselves up and start in again aer a disappointment

- Marsha Sinetar

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand.277.

It will ll you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to getto work on it.

- W. Clement Stone

One great queson underlies our experience, whether we278.

think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the

moment of birth every human being wants happiness and

does not want suering. Neither social condioning noreducaon nor ideology aects this. From the very core of

our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is

important to discover what will bring about the greatest

degree of happiness

- Dalai Lama

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake279.

everything on obtaining it.

- Brendan Francis

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as280.

great as your dominant aspiraon

- James Allen

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain281.security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

- Benjamin Franklin


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DESIRE

When you love people and have the desire to make a282.

profound, posive impact upon the world, then will you

have accomplished the meaning to live.

- Sasha Azevedo

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without283.

ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The

connuance of your longing is the connuance of your

prayer.

- Saint Augusne

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to284.improve it.

- Wayne Dyer

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but285.

for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great

desire forever beang at the door of our hearts as we

travel toward our distant goal.- Helen Keller

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.286.

- J. G. Gallimore

Happiness can be dened, in part at least, as the fruit of287.

the desire and ability to sacrice what we want now for

what we want eventually

- Stephen R. Covey

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach288.

your full potenal... these are the keys that will unlock the

door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

One of the most dicult things everyone has to learn289.

is that for your enre life you must keep ghng and

adjusng if you hope to survive. No maer who you are or

what your posion is you must keep ghng for whatever

it is you desire to achieve.

- George Allen


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DESIRE

DReAMs

Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe290.

in yourself and they will come true

- Unknown

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.291. Think not about your frustraons, but about your

unfullled potenal. Concern yourself not with what you

tried and failed in, but with what it is sll possible for you

to do.

- Pope John XXIII

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay292.

the price to make them come true.

- Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens

We grow by our dreams.293.

- Woodrow T. Wilson

There is hope in dreams, imaginaon, and in the courage294.

of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.- Jonas Salk

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the295.

children of your soul; the blueprints of your ulmate

achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

Dreams are illustraons... from the book your soul is296.wring about you.

- Marsha Norman


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DESIRE - DREAMS

We all have our me machines. Some take us back,297.

theyre called memories. Some take us forward, theyre

called dreams.

- Jeremy Irons

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.You298.

can have anything in life if you will sacrice everything else

for it.

- James Mahew Barrie

The only thing that will stop you from fullling your299.

dreams is you.- Tom Bradley

Dreams are todays answers to tomorrows quesons.300.

- Edgar Cayce

If one advances condently in the direcon of ones301.

dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one hasimagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in

common hours.


Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the302.

dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

- Lyman Frank Baum

The victory of success is half won when one gains the303.

habit of seng goals and achieving them. Even the most

tedious chore will become endurable as you parade

through each day convinced that every task, no maer

how menial or boring, brings you closer to fullling your

dreams.

- Og Mandino

Your vision will become clear only when you look into304.

your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside,

awakens.

- Carl Gustav Jung


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DREAMS

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them305.

with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke

the life from your dream. Water them with opmism and

soluons and you will culvate success. Always be on thelookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for

success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your

dream.

- Lao Tzu

Youre in the midst of a war: a bale between the limits306.

of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the

power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a

ght between those who will tell you what you cannot do,

and that part of you that knows / and has always known /

that we are more than our environment; and that a dream,

backed by an unrelenng will to aain it, is truly a reality

with an imminent arrival.

- Anthony Robbins

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to307.

eternity.

- Kahlil Gibran

Dreams and dedicaon are a powerful combinaon.308.

- William Longgood

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions309.

to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and

desires.

- Kahlil Gibran

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance310.

for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes,

we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create thedreams.

- Unknown


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DREAMS

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.311.

- Abdul Kalam

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow312.

yourself the me and space to let your mind wander and

your imaginaon y.

- Oprah Winfrey

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no313.

reasons are necessary.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

I believe that imaginaon is stronger than knowledge314.

- myth is more potent than history - dreams are more

powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over

experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger

than death

- Robert Fulghum

Dreams pass into the reality of acon. From the acons315.

stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces

the highest form of living.

- Anais Nin

A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man, of happiness.316.

- Turkish Proverb

FAItH

If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought317.to the physical world.

- Bob Proctor

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without318.

reservaon.

- Unknown


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DREAMS

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once319.

accepted, despite your changing moods.

- C.S. Lewis

When you have come to the edge of all light that you320.

know and are about to drop o into the darkness Of the

unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen:

There will be something solid to stand on or You will be

taught to y

- Patrick Overton

The only thing that stands between a man and what he321.wants from life is oen merely the will to try it and the

faith to believe that it is possible.

- David Visco

Everything you are seeking are seeking you in return.322.

Therefore, everything you want is already yours. So,

you dont have to get anything. It is simply a maer ofbecoming more aware of what you already possess.

- Bob Proctor

The reason birds can y and we cant is simply that they323.

have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings

- James Mahew Barrie

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow324.

bigger than your faith.

- Mary Manin Morrissey

To one who has faith, no explanaon is necessary. To one325.

without faith, no explanaon is possible.

- St. Thomas Aquinas

Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you326.

will hold it in your hand.

- Bob Proctor


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FAITH

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of327.

reason to believe.

- Voltaire

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul328.

needs the matchless and pure strength of faith

- Mahatma Gandhi

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe329.

in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is

whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

- Roy L. Smith

The only limits in our life are those we impose on330.

ourselves.

- Bob Proctor

The smallest seed of faith is beer than the largest fruit of331.

happiness.- Henry David Thoreau

Scepcism is the beginning of Faith.332.

- Oscar Wilde

If you can envision it, you can have it!333.

- Bob Proctor

I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are334.

far beyond our own power, its an opportunity to build on

our faith, inner strength, and courage. Ive learned that

how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of

them.

- Sasha Azevedo

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we335.

will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith

to trust our own admission. The adming is oen very

dicult.

- Julia Cameron


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FAITH

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this336.

faith is to see what you believe.

- Saint Augusne

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of337.

proof.

- Kahlil Gibran

As your faith is strengthened you will nd that there is no338.

longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will

ow as they will, and that you will ow with them, to your

great delight and benet.- Emmanuel Teney

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis339.

of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather

on the belief that we ~shall~ land.

- Carter Heyward

Faith sees a beauful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in340.

a seed, and a giant oak in an acorn.


Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.341.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Painng is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard342.public opinion.

- Vincent van Gogh

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live343.

for.

- Bob Harrington

Faith is taking the rst step even when you dont see the344.

whole staircase.


Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is acve.345.

- Edith Hamilton


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FAITH

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see346.

- William Newton Clarke

The foundaon stones for a balanced success are honesty,347.

character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

- Zig Ziglar

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in348.

nothing.

- Victor Hugo

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is mans349.lack of faith in his true Self.

- William James

In faith there is enough light for those who want to350.

believe and enough shadows to blind those who dont.

- Blaise Pascal

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH351.

enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to

support your needs; STRENGTH enough to bale with

dicules and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess

your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil

unl some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see

some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you

to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make

real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious

fears concerning the future.


Faith is the condence, the assurance, the enforcing truth,352.

the knowing...

- Robert Collier

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of353.

companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and

it is the greatest property.

- Buddha


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FAITH

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of354.

the future.

- Robert Collyer

All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary355.

gures; they were men and women who projected into the

future. They thought of what could be, rather than what

already was, and then they moved themselves into acon,

to bring these things into fruion.

- Bob Proctor

When you really want something, and you couple that356.with an understanding of your nature, of your spiritual

being, and the laws that govern you, you will keep going,

regardless of whats happened. Nothing will stop you.

- Bob Proctor

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief357.

at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and ablessing.

- Bob Proctor

You have to believe its possible and believe in yourself.358.

Because aer youve decided what you want, you have to

believe its possible, and possible for you, not just for other

people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and

coaches.

- Jack Caneld

Theres enough for everyone. If you believe it, if you can359.

see it, if you act from it, it will show up for you. Thats the

truth

- Michael Beckwith

There are laws of the universe and if you pracce them360.

they will respond to you

- Michael Beckwith


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FAITH

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilies! Without a361.

humble but reasonable condence in your own powers you

cannot be successful or happy.


The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not362.

material things.. it is the human mind, the human spirit,

the human imaginaon, and our faith in the future.

- Steve Forbes

Every achiever that I have ever met says, My life turned363.

around when I began to believe in me.- Dr. Robert H. Schuller

The most valuable things in life are not measured in364.

monetary terms. The really important things are not

houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real

estate, but friendships, trust, condence, empathy, mercy,

love and faith.- Bertrand Russell

FeARMost fears cannot withstand the test of careful scruny365.

and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of

thoughul examinaon they usually just evaporate. - Jack

Caneld

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not366.

learned the secret of life.


Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer367.

- Anthony Robbins


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FAITH

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less,368.

breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good

things will be yours

- Swedish Proverb

Ulmately we know deeply that the other side of every369.

fear is freedom.

- Marilyn Ferguson

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never370.

fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the

moment you reject all help are you freed.- Buddha

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety371.

from danger, but deliverance from fear


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence372. of fear

- Mark Twain

To overcome a fear, heres all you have to do: realize the373.

fear is there, and do the acon you fear anyway.

- Peter McWilliams

Procrasnaon is the fear of success. People374.procrasnate because they are afraid of the success that

they know will result if they move ahead now. Because

success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much

easier to procrasnate and live on the someday Ill

philosophy.

- Denis Waitley

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make375.

up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesnt exist

anywhere except in the mind.

- Dale Carnegie


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Fear is the main source of superson, and one of the376.

main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of

wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain377.

- Anthony Robbins

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is378.

the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer

fear.

- Dale Carnegie

Inacon breeds doubt and fear. Acon breeds condence379.

and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home

and think about it. Go out and get busy.

- Dale Carnegie

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not380. learned the secret of life.


If you look into your own heart, and you nd nothing381.

wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there

to fear?

- Confucius

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to382.

be turned from.

- Peter McWilliams

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for False383.

Evidence Appearing Real

- Neale Donald Walsch

Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair,384.

hopelessness and resignaon. You can eliminate all of

these negave habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and

I will!!

- Unknown


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FEAR

You gain strength, courage, and condence by every385.

experience in which you really stop to look fear in the

face do the thing you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

He who fears to suer, suers from fear386.

- French Proverb

Do what you fear most and you control fear.387.

- Tom Hopkins

Courage leads to heaven; fear to death388.- Seneca

There are four ways you can handle fear. You can go over389.

it, under it, or around it. But if you are ever to put fear

behind you, you must walk straight through it. Once you

put fear behind you, leave it there.

- Donna A. Favors

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the390.

judgement that something else is more important than

fear.

- Ambrose Redmoon

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our391.

deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Itis our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We

ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,

and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a

child of God. Your playing small doesnt serve the world.

Theres nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

people wont feel insecure around you. We are all meant

to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifestthe glory of God that is within us. Its not just in some of

us, its in everyone. And as we let our own light shine,

we unconsciously give other people permission to do the

same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence

automacally liberates others.

- Marianne Williamson


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FEAR

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the lile-392.

death that brings total obliteraon. I will face my fear...

And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its

path. Where the fear is gone there will be nothing. Only Iwill remain.

- Frank Herbert

Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that393.

its as temporary as you choose.

- Chrisne Comaford

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a394.belief system that is not working. To perceive the world

dierently, we must be willing to change our belief system,

let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and

dissolve the fear in our minds.

- William James

I have oen been afraid, but I wouldnt give in to it. I395.made myself act as though I was not afraid, and gradually

my fear disappeared.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.396.

- Richard Bach

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the397.

mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other

thoughts are drained.

- Arthur Somers Roche

Fear an ignorant man more than a lion398.

- Turkish Proverb

They who have conquered doubt and fear have399.

conquered failure

- James Allen


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FEAR

Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us.400.

Normal fear movates us to improve our individual and

collecve welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and

distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fearbut, rather to harness and master it.


Indecision is the seedling of fear401.

- Napoleon Hill

FoCUs

Its not whats happening to you now or what has402.

happened in your past that determines who you become.

Rather, its your decisions about what to focus on, what

things mean to you, and what youre going to do about

them that will determine your ulmate desny.

- Anthony Robbins

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not403.

people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.


When you write down your ideas you automacally focus404.

your full aenon on them. Few if any of us can write one

thought and think another at the same me. Thus a pencil

and paper make excellent concentraon tools.

- Michael Leboeuf

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is405.

that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our

power. Most people dabble their way through life, never

deciding to master anything in parcular.

- Anthony Robbins


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FEAR

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.406.

One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy

we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us;

concentrate our energy.- Denis Waitley

Dont dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what407.

to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward

nding the answer.

- Denis Waitley

Goals are a means to an end, not the ulmate purpose of408.our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus

and move us in a direcon. The only reason we really

pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.

Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in

the long term; its who you become, as you overcome the

obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give

you the deepest and most long-lasng sense of fulllment.- Anthony Robbins

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on409.

things we desire not things we fear.

- Brian Tracy

Focus on your potenal instead of your limitaons410.

- Alan Loy McGinnis

You cant depend on your judgment when your411.

imaginaon is out of focus

- Mark Twain

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can412.

immediately command when we focus all of our resourceson mastering a single area of our lives.

- Anthony Robbins


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FOCUS

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we413.

pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses,

which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us

only what lies in its own focus.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the414.

dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how

easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as

your desires, unless you make them so.

- Marcia Wieder

I nd hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the415.

brightest. I do not judge the universe.

- Dalai Lama

All blame is a waste of me. No maer how much fault416.

you nd with another, and regardless of how much you

blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blamedoes is to keep the focus o you when you are looking

for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or

frustraon. You may succeed in making another feel guilty

about something by blaming him, but you wont succeed

in changing whatever it is about you that is making you

unhappy.

- Wayne Dyer

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to417.

see the light.

- Aristotle Onassis

You cant depend on your eyes when your imaginaon is418.

out of focus.

- Mark Twain

Focus 90% of your me on soluons and only 10% of your419.

me on problems.

- Anthony J. DAngelo


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FOCUS

Rather than denying problems, focus invenvely,420.

intenonally on what soluons might look or feel like...

Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape

circumstanal traps / if we trust it to do so. Naturally, notall hunches are useful. But then you only need a single

good idea to solve a problem.

- Marsha Sinetar

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on421.

your future, rather than on the past.

- Gary Ryan Blair

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get422.

the knowledge you need to nd your unique factor. When

you nd it and focus on it and persevere your success will

blossom.

- Sidney Madwed

We can always choose to perceive things dierently. You423.can focus on whats wrong in your life, or you can focus on

whats right.


Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives,424.

as parallel realies. It is always our conscious choice which

secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus

on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the

abundance thats present / love, health, family, friends,

work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring

us pleasure / the wasteland of illusion falls away and we

experience Heaven on earth.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Focus on the journey, not the desnaon. Joy is found not425.in nishing an acvity but in doing it.

- Greg Anderson

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The426.

suns rays do not burn unl brought to a focus.

- Alexander Graham Bell


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FOCUS

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on427.

harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the

universe.

- Wayne Dyer

When I chased aer money, I never had enough. When I428.

got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and

everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

- Wayne Dyer

When every physical and mental resources is focused,429.

ones power to solve a problem mulplies tremendously.- Norman Vincent Peale

Producvity is never an accident. It is always the result430.

of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and

focused eort.

- Paul J. Meyer

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.431.

- Les Brown

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the432.

moment you are in can you receive whatever gi, lesson,

or delight that moment has to oer.

- Barbara De Angelis

FoRGIVeness

Resentment is like taking poison and waing for the other433.

person to die.

- Malachy McCourt


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FOCUS

Forgiveness is not always easy. At mes, it feels more434.

painful than the wound we suered, to forgive the one that

inicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.


The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is435.

the only moment we can experience.

- Louise Hay

Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a436.

way of rearing its head and making itself known when we

least expect it.- Debbie Ford

To understand everything is to forgive everything437.

- Buddha

I really dont think life is about the I-could-have-beens.438.

Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I dont mind the failurebut I cant imagine that Id forgive myself if I didnt try.

- Nikki Giovanni

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means439.

pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the

unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems

hopeless.

- G. K. Chesterton

Love yourselfaccept yourselfforgive yourselfand be440.

good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are

without a source of many wonderful things.

- Leo F. Buscaglia

Flaer me, and I may not believe you. Cricize me, and441.I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.

Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may

be forced to love you.



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FOCUS - FORGIVENESS

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the442.

prisoner was you.

- Lewis B. Smedes

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before443.

you spend, earn. Before you invest, invesgate. Before you

cricize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.

Before you rere, save. Before you die, give.


Do more than belong: parcipate. Do more than care:444.

help. Do more than believe: pracce. Do more than befair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than

dream: work.


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the aribute of445.

the strong.

- Mahatma Gandhi

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover unl we446.

forgive

- Alan Paton

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and447.

move on.

- Les Brown

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace448.

- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge449.

the future.

- Paul Boese


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FORGIVENESS

Sincere forgiveness isnt colored with expectaons450.

that the other person apologize or change. Dont worry

whether or not they nally understand you. Love them and

release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its ownway and me.

- Sara Paddison

Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of451.

resentment and retaliaon

- Roberto Assagioli

True forgiveness is not an acon aer the fact, it is an452.atude with which you enter each moment.

- David Ridge

Friendship ourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.453.


Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of454. resentment and the handcus of hate. It is a power

that breaks the chains of bierness and the shackles of

selshness.


The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an455.

opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child,

a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother,

conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself,

respect; to all men, charity.

- Benjamin Franklin

We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the456.

forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves

- Joshua Loth Liebman

Inner peace can be reached only when we pracce457.

forgiveness. Forgiveness is leng go of the past, and is

therefore the means for correcng our mispercepons.

- Gerald Jampolsky


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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness458.

saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the

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