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• Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Nov 30, 2015

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• Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Love, Book, Communication

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1971). “The Little Package: Pages on Literature and Landscape from a Traveling Bookman's Life”, Books for Libraries

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• The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

  Lee Iacocca

  Life, Motivational, Writing

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.50, Bantam

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• Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

  Michael Arndt

  Lines, Action, Improvement

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• There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!

  Henry Ford

  Believe, Successful, Differences

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• Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Self Harm, Fall

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What you become directly influences what you get.

  Jim Rohn

  Influence, Progression

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 12, 2017

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• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.

  Michael Arndt

  Thinking, Goal, Way

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• If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Slavery, Obligation

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• We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.

  Michael Arndt

  Empowering, Realization, Levels

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• One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Motivational, Fear

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• Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.

  Michael Arndt

  Opportunity, Mind, Problem

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• When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Knowledge, College

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.89, Best Books on

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• Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Long Distance Relationship, Encouragement

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.311, Best Books on

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• All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

  Michael Arndt

  World, Improvement, Creator

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• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.

  Wayne Dyer

  Needs, Way, Abundance

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism" by Gary Gach, (p. 285), 2002.

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• When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

  Theodore Martin

  Men, Years, Perfection

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• You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Helping Others, People

  John Ruskin (2015). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.93, John Ruskin

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• By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Motivational, Track, Development

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• Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

  Brad Pitt

  Self, Improvement, Fight Club Book

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• The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Change, Integrity

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• The useless men are those who never change with the years.

  James M. Barrie

  Motivational, Change, Years

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• Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.

  Michael Arndt

  Perception, Process, Stagnant

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• Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Positive, Congratulations

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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