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155 Spectacular Les Brown Quotes to Start Your Day Ready
He’s a true world figure when it comes to motivation, speaking, personal achievement and increasing self-esteem. Les Brown will always focus on the greatness that we all have within us and say what needs to be said when it comes to starting your day in anticipation for great things to happen.
Les Brown was born 1945 in Florida with a twin brother and is an American motivational speaker. He was adopted by a single woman and says he was declared “educable mentally retarded” in grade school which damaged his self-esteem and confidence.
Brown’s professional life started with a stint at a radio station. He was laid off which led him to pursue politics and serve as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives for six years between 1977 and 1983. Brown went into television next, working across several networks before he landed a contract with PBS as a motivational speaker.
His speeches became increasingly popular, gaining further recognition across the country. Brown also had his own talk show The Les Brown Show for three months in 1993.
Brown defied the odds when he became one of the world’s best motivational speakers. His thoughts, sayings, speeches, writings and quotes stand on the pinnacle of motivation and are what we should all wake up to for a confidence guarantee that lasts all day long.
1. It is important to surround yourself with people who life you up, encourage you, share your vision and inspire you.
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2. You gotta be hungry!
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3. Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.
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4. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
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5. Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
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6. Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.
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7. If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you’ll be the 10th one.
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8. If you don’t program yourself, life will program you.
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9. Very often, the biggest hurdle in reaching a goal is getting started. And the second biggest hurdle is getting started in the right direction.
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10. A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
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11. Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.
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12. Everything you do and every decision you make should be from a place of good. You should always be striving to make the world a better place.
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13. When your why is big enough you will find your how.
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14. You will win if you don’t quit.
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15. Without a solid, realistic and detailed plan, the goal is nothing more than a pipe dream. And without the commitment to follow through on that plan and put forth the necessary effort, the dream is nothing more than a good intention.
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16. Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
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17. Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
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18. You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
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19. If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
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20. Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
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21. Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
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22. Ask yourself if you’re one of the good people who successful people want to be around.
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23. It has been said, most people die at age 25 and don’t get buried until they are 65.
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24. Each of us owes someone. We all benefit by reaching out and helping others.
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25. Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
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26. It really doesn’t matter what’s going on right now. The only thing that matters is what you’re going to do about it. Do something powerful!
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27. Success is both very personal and relative, depending on where you would like to be in your own life.
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28. No one can determine your destiny but you. Will it be easy? Of course not. Can you do it? Of course you can. But it requires patience and persistence. Seize this moment of crisis as your opportunity to start fresh, and live your dreams.
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29. No one can continually insult you or hurt your feelings without your permission.
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30. I can’t control what life hands me. What I can control is how I handle it.
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31. The greatest revenge is massive success.
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32. Leave energy drainers alone. Don’t let them slow you down and stop your dream. Your possibilities are too important.
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33. The easiest thing I ever did was earn a million dollars. The hardest thing I ever did, and it took years, was believing I was capable of earning a million dollars.
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34. You can make decisions like that about your life. If you are carrying strong feeling about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. You have to get rid of them.
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35. Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
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36. YOU decide what your limits are, and YOU decide your level of success. You are responsible for the time that you spend on this planet.
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37. This is the time to activate the thinker in you, to begin to become the driving, active force in your life. Things have changed and you want to begin to learn how to manage change, to become the driver of change and not a victim of it.
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38. You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
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39. I believe adults and parents who do not get involved in children’s lives effectively forfeit any right to attempt to influence their lives.
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40. No matter how bad it is or how bad it gets I am going to make it.
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41. Honor your commitments with integrity.
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42. A lot of people become discouraged too soon. The name of the game is, you’ve got to be relentless.
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43. You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
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44. I often speak to people who wonder why they continue to fail. In many situations, they are concentrating their efforts in the wrong places period.
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45. A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.
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46. In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
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47. It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
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48. If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness and to strive and achieve.
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49. Make an effort to live your life to the fullest.
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50. Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it. You can accept that you are afraid and then move on.
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51. As you reach your goals set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
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52. Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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53. If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
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54. There are people who are wise enough and motivated enough to change their lives and live their dreams, and then there are those who need a kick in the pants to change their ways.
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55. If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
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56. You can get the kind of results that you are looking for in life if you are willing to work smart to achieve them.
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57. Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
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58. If you have children who love and respect you, this too can be a sign of your success.
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59. You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.
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60. Making things happen in your life requires a faith, or an ability to believe that is unshakable, regardless of your circumstances.
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61. Goals help you channel your energy into action.
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62. I have learned that to get out of life what I expect, I must commit myself to beginning each day by concentrating on positive thoughts and focusing on my goals.
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63. When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.
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64. If it’s hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.
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65. It’s important to me that money not be important to me.
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66. There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.
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67. Set a goal that’s meaningful and compelling enough, and your skills, your knowledge and your effectiveness will expand in order to reach that goal.
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68. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
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69. You can complain about the direction of your life all you want, but until you sit in the driver’s seat and begin to drive yourself, you aren’t going to get where you want to go!
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70. You have to be willing to allow the person you are today to DIE so that you can give birth to the person you are meant to become.
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71. If you allow your self-esteem to erode, your fear will eat at you; ultimately it could destroy you.
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72. Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
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73. When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.
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74. Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.
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75. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
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76. Are the people around you holding you back or empowering you to move forward? If you life is going nowhere, take a look at the group of people you hang around with.
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77. If you have no vision of yourself in the future, then you have nothing to live for.
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78. You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
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79. Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
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80. Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.
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81. No one will take better care of your dream than you.
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82. It’s necessary to get the losers out of your life if you want to live your dreams.
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83. Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal.
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84. The truth that will set men free, is the truth men don’t want to hear.
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85. The time is ‘now’ to do something – don’t drag your feet.
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86. Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are. Go for it.
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87. Make a conscious effort to let go of fear and act from a sense of consciousness that will empower and protect you. You are strong. You are greater than the fear!
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88. If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
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89. When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.
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90. Dealing with life means taking advantage of each new challenge as an opportunity to learn and accomplish something new.
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91. If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.
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92. I don’t dwell on the things that are too late to fix, but I do my best to get life’s lessons and put them into action.
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93. This is an age of awareness, an age of the mind. Those who can think or create, those who are educated or trained, those who are resourceful, those who are good business people are the ones who will determine their own destiny.
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94. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
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95. We have the capacity to change, to lead meaningful and productive lives by awakening our consciousness.
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96. No one rises to low expectations.
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97. Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow.
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98. No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it.
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99. One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you.
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100. Remember, wisdom comes form everywhere, I am always searching for ideas that can inspire me or others to reach another level.
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101. I would rather fail at what I love than succeed at what I hate.
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102. You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
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103. Families are who we are, after all. They are a looking glass, and in the best of cases, they can be a source of empowerment and support for getting the thing we can’t out of life.
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104. Not having goals is like having no idea where you want to go when you step up to an airline counter to buy a ticket.
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105. It’s necessary to know that everybody won’t see it. That everybody won’t join you, that everybody won’t have the vision. It’s necessary to know that. That a lot of people like to complain but they don’t want to do anything about their situation. That you are UNCOMMON breed.
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106. You don’t get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
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107. I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
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108. Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
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109. All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.
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110. Reading about the lives of other achievers and their impact on our world inspires me to continue to help others realize their greatness.
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111. True honesty is hard. Throughout my career, I’ve faced moments where I’ve needed to take an honest look at myself and face some very uncomfortable realities.
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112. Life is challenging. Find ways in which you can begin to give mor of yourself, ways in which you can begin to help others. Help somebody and help yourself because what you give is what you get.
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113. Every day, we can either choose to be a victim or we can choose to live life victoriously.
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114. It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
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115. A person with the right attitude says to himself or herself, I may be here in this situation, but it doesn’t mean I have to stay here. When faced with a challenge, do you ask: why me? Or do you accept the opportunity for you to grow?
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116. I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs.
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117. Negatively charged people sit on their “buts.” Monitor your language. Listen to the way you respond to questions and situations.
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118. The fact is, discipline is only punishment when imposed on you by someone else. When you discipline yourself, it’s not punishment but empowerment.
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119. When you don’t move on life, life moves on you.
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120. Never say you’re having a bad day…say you’re having a character building day.
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121. Think big when you set your goals. Dare to think big and then set a series of smaller goals to get you there.
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122. If you look the part and act the part, you’ll be surprised as the results you will produce. This is true with negative impressions as well as positive ones.
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123. Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
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124. When I talk about consciousness, I;m talking about a combination of your hopes, your thoughts and your emotions, used as a force to act on what you see within yourself.
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125. Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
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126. If you want to grow and develop yourself, embrace failure. If you want to become the best at what you do, you’ve got to be willing to fail, again and again. And then finally, one day, you can fail your way to greatness.
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127. The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the ‘buts’ you use today.
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128. Building your feelings of self-worth is critical to overcoming your fears.
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129. Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can look up you can get up.
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130. Your dream was given to you. If someone else can’t see it for you, that’s fine, it was given to you and not them. It’s your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!
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131. Listen to yourself the voice that’s in your Heart not your head,it will lead you to your Goal.
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132. No runner ever won a race buy looking over his should and demeaning the competition.
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133. You have to know within yourself that you can do this.
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134. What you have right now in your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Start by controlling your thoughts. We can’t control the thoughts that come into our mind but we can control what we dwell on. Start dwelling on the positive things in your life.
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135. The people that want to step into their greatness are hungry.
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136. Take the energy you are wasting feeling sorry for yourself and use it to help someone else.
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137. Know your gifts and share them.
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138. Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
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139. You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.
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140. You are better than anything that is happening to you right now. If you’re facing challenge of drugs and alcohol orang kind of addiction, get some help. Remember that nobody can help you unless you hold on to your commitment to regain, and retain, control of your life. Like my friend, resist all temptation to backslide into the thoughts and actions that cause you to lose control in the first place.
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141. You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.
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142. Don’t waste time bathing in the negative experience. Spin your energy and focus your attention on moving on.
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143. Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
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144. If you want to begin to alter your circumstance and alter your life, it’s very important that you begin to change your attitude about yourself.
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145. In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
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146. Luck is nice, but work is something you can control. So get working!
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147. If no one answered right away, just keep knocking until you wake them up!
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148. It’s necessary that you align yourself with people and attract people into your business that are hungry. People that are unstoppable and unreasonable. It’s necessary to get the losers out of your life if you want to live your dreams.
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149. Focus your energy. Find one thing and drop your buckets there. Do that one thing until it blesses you.
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150. Birds of a feather flock together. You run around with losers, you will end up a loser. It’s necessary that you get the losers out of your life if you want to live your dream.
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151. It is as though complaining is a substitute for action. I always appreciate people who are willing to tell you what they think is wrong, but who are just as willing to tell you what they think is right, especially if they are willing to take action on the court they recommend.
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152. You have greatness within you. You can do more than you can ever begin to imagine.
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153. Dig in, and expect good things, the things shortcuts won’t allow you to have.
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154. Never say that you are having a bad day. Always say – ‘I am having a character building day.’
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155. Make change a tool for your success. Let it happen, and celebrate the possibilities.
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