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You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work β the most you will make is 5 dollars.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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To progress in life, I donβt focus on how much I have done but on how much I have yet to do.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams)
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Let your creative and imaginative mind run freely; it will take you places you never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were impossible.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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You don't have to be good at something to be liked.
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Stephen Richards
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When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.
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Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)
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A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on.
I am attentive to the opportunities and I seize them as they arise.
I have full confidence in myself and my abilities.
I can do all things that I commit myself to.
No obstacle is too big or too difficult for me to handle because what lies inside me is greater than what lies ahead of me.
I am committed to improving myself and I am getting better daily.
I am not held back by regret or mistakes from the past.
I am moving forward daily.
Absolutely nothing is impossible for me.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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I am a strong and powerful woman.
I am proud to be a woman and I celebrate the qualities that I have as a woman.
I am not defined by other peopleβs opinion of who I should be or what I should do as a woman. I determine that, not anyone else.
I am not passed up for a position, title, or promotion because I am a woman.
I fully deserve all the good things that comes my way.
Irrespective of what anyone might think, being a woman places no boundaries or limits on my abilities.
I can do anything I set my mind to.
I celebrate my womanhood and I am beautiful both inside and out.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Positive belief in yourself will give you the energy needed to conquer the world and this belief is the power behind all creation.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Your worth is not what you have, but who you are.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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All my problems bow before my stubbornness.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Resources are hired to give results, not reasons.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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All worries are less with wine.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Be yourself and become wealthy!
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Stephen Richards
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The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you'll make a fortune.
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Jim Rohn
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The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around β you are its master!
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Great losses are great lessons.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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It is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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There is nothing around me but money, money, money.
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Stephen Richards
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If a person loves you but doesn't respect you then it can not be a real love. It is not possible to love them without respecting them.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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If you take any step, no matter how small it is, towards achieving your dreams then you will surely find the right path and reach the abundance that lies in store for you.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Limitations are like mirages created by your own mind. When you realise that limitation do not exist, those around you will also feel it and allow you inside their space.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Be a worthy worker and work will come.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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With every challenge you face, there is an opportunity hidden that will lead you towards the path of wealth and abundance.
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Stephen Richards (Be First: Achieve Every Dream)
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A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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If you want the motivation back, you must feed it Feed it everything. Books, television, movies, paintings, stage plays, real-life experience. Sometimes feeding simply means working, working through nonmotivation, working even when you hate it.
We create art for many reasons - wealth, fame, love, admiration - but I find the one thing that produces the best results is desire. When you want the thing you're creating, the beauty of it will shine through, even if the details aren't all in order. Desire is the fuel of creators, and when we have that, motivation will come in its wake.
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Francesca Zappia (Eliza and Her Monsters)
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Failures can be called βstrengthenersβ as they make you determined to reach your goal with the lessons they teach.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough!
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Stephen Richards
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If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. The one who is motivated only by the desire for the fruits of their action, and anxious about the results, is miserable indeed.
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Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Whatever belief we have actually stems from the thankfulness that we feel and this feeling further attracts more happy feelings towards us.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.
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Stephen Richards (Boost Your Self Esteem)
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Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a nonsupportive root such as fear, anger, or the need to βproveβ yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.
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T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
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I can lend you my money not my books.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Hunger gives flavour to the food.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life.
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Piero Gheddo
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Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.
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Stephen Richards
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According to the Law of Attraction, the physical reality that you experience at present is drawn towards the future probability you desired when it attains more power.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.
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Stephen Richards
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Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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Don't overestimate your emotions and underestimate your intelligence.
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Preparation doesn't assures victory, it assures confidence.
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Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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When you are drowned by your sorry state, and you feel as if you are carried away from the road that leads to your desires, you should know that you are the one responsible for being led away from the right path.
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Stephen Richards (Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free)
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Years ago, in a motivational seminar by the master, Zig Ziglar, I heard a story about how mediocrity will sneak up on you. The story goes that if you drop a frog into boiling water, he will sense the pain and immediately jump out. However, if you put a frog in room-temperature water, he will swim around happily, and as you gradually turn the water up to boiling, the frog will not sense the change. The frog is lured to his death by gradual change. We can lose our health, our fitness, and our wealth gradually, one day at a time. It might be a clichΓ©, but thatβs because it is true: The enemy of βthe bestβ is not βthe worst.β The enemy of βthe bestβ is βjust fine.
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Dave Ramsey (The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness)
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Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness. Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do. 50 When consciousness is unified, however, all vain anxiety is left behind. There is no cause for worry, whether things go well or ill.
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Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (The Bhagavad Gita)
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That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.
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Eula Biss (On Immunity: An Inoculation)
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or religion helps solve the problem of how unrelated individuals are to live together without killing each otherβby providing them with a bond not based on kinship. Second, it gives people a motive, other than genetic self-interest, for sacrificing their lives on behalf of others.
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Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #1))
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession β as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life β will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.
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John Maynard Keynes (Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren)
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Always choose to be smart
There are two types of people in the world,
the seekers of riches and the wise thinkers,
those who believe that the important thing is money,
and those who know that knowledge is the true treasure.
I, for my part, choose the second option,
Though I could have everything I want
I prefer to be an intelligent person,
and never live in a game of vain appearances.
Knowledge can take you far
far beyond what you imagine,
It can open doors and opportunities for you.
and make you see the world with different eyes.
But in this eagerness to be "wise",
There is a task that is a great challenge.
It is facing the fear of the unknown,
and see the horrors around every corner.
It's easy to be brave when you're sure,
away from dangers and imminent risks,
but when death threatens you close,
"wisdom" is not enough to protect you.
Because, even if you are smart and cunning,
death sometimes comes without mercy,
lurking in the darkest shadows,
and there is no way to escape.
That is why the Greek philosophers,
They told us about the moment I died,
an idea we should still take,
to understand that death is a reality.
Wealth can't save you
of the inevitable arrival of the end,
and just as a hoarder loses his treasures,
we also lose what we have gained.
So, if we have to choose between two things,
that is between being cunning or rich,
Always choose the second option
because while the money disappears,
wisdom helps us face dangers.
Do not fear death, my friend,
but embrace your intelligence,
learn all you can in this life,
and maybe you can beat time and death
for that simple reason always choose to be smart.
Maybe death is inevitable
But that doesn't mean you should be afraid
because intelligence and knowledge
They will help you face any situation and know what to do.
No matter what fate has in store,
wisdom will always be your best ally,
to live a life full of satisfaction,
and bravely face any situation.
So don't settle for what you have
and always look for ways to learn more,
because in the end, true wealth
It is not in material goods, but in knowledge.
Always choose to be smart,
Well, that will be the best investment.
that will lead you on the right path,
and it will make you a better version of yourself.
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Marcos Orowitz (THE MAELSTROM OF EMOTIONS: A selection of poems and thoughts About us humans and their nature)
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Well-being has been cast aside for wealth; success favored over sanity. In the process, some have turned cold toward life, and toward others. Where is the energized, heightened, exhilarated pulse one would expect from such a chosen and capable people? Why do we not hear more laughter and life? Where is the vibrant, mad fury and passion of the fully engaged human? Where are the people burning with charisma and joy and magnetism? Where is the appreciation for lifeβs spark? We must reexamine our attitude toward life. Our supreme duty must be to rekindle the magic of life. For this, we now declare: WE SHALL PRACTICE JOY AND GRATITUDE.
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Brendon Burchard (The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power)
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...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are the moving impulses of our life. But it is only those who do not understand our people, who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things that we want much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
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I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the love he had forfeited and by that process performed great service to the world and, perhaps, had much more than balanced the evils of his rise. I was on a ship when he died. The news was posted on the bulletin board, and nearly everyone recieved the news with pleasure. Several said, "Thank God that son of a bitch is dead."
Then there was a man, smart as Satan, who, lacking some perception of human dignity and knowing all too well every aspect of human weakness and wickedness, used his special knowledge to warp men, to buy men, to bribe and threaten and seduce until he found himself in a position of great power. He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise...
There was a third man, who perhaps made many errors in performance but whose effective life was devoted to making men brave and dignified and good in a time when they were poor and frightened and when ugly forces were loose in the world to utilize their fears. This man was hated by few. When he died the people burst into tears in the streets and their minds wailed, "What can we do now?" How can we go on without him?"
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, mo matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror....we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
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John Steinbeck (East of Eden)
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If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you must guard your liberty, and you must not let the church get control of your government. If you do, you will lose the greatest legacy ever bequeathed to the human raceβintellectual freedom.
Now let me tell you another thing. If all the energy and wealth wasted upon religionβin all of its varied formsβhad been spent to understand life and its problems, we would today be living under conditions that would seem almost like Utopia. Most of our social and domestic problems would have been solved, and equally as important, our understanding and relations with the other peoples of the world would have, by now, brought about universal peace.
Man would have a better understanding of his motives and actions, and would have learned to curb his primitive instincts for revenge and retaliation. He would, by now, know that wars of hate, aggression, and aggrandizement are only productive of more hate and more human suffering.
The enlightened and completely emancipated man from the fears of a God and the dogma of hate and revenge would make him a brother to his fellow man.
He would devote his energies to discoveries and inventions, which theology previously condemned as a defiance of God, but which have proved so beneficial to him. He would no longer be a slave to a God and live in cringing fear!
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