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Motivational quotes have been a huge inspiration to me over the years. When I would a hear motivational quote that I liked, I would immediately write it down and then I would memorize it. Once I memorized an awesome quote, it was mine forever. Whenever I had an opportunity to share an empowering quote with someone I would. Wisdom is a wonderful thing to discover, but there comes a duty with discovering wisdom. You must share your wisdom with others so they can continue to pass the wisdom on. Here is part 19 of my motivational quotes series. If you love motivational quotes, take some time to look at parts 1 – 18 so you can find the quotes that will bring out the best of you. Don’t forget to memorize them and share them with the world. Motivational quotes just inspire me so much that I can’t get enough of them. Tell me your favorite quote in the comments section.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Aristotle

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting – it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

Bo Bennett

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Buddha

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Buddha

Never forget that to be genuinely interested in other people is the most important quality for a salesperson to possess or for any person in that matter.

Dale Carnegie

Man is not cut out for defeat. Man can be destroyed but not defeated.
E. Hemingway

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides

A man’s happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise.

Henry David Thoreau

Perseverance is failing over and over again until you achieve the results that you desire.

Never give up until you succeed.

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Focus on the future and forget the past. Failure is not an option if you  believe you can achieve anything you desire.

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Live your life being fearless. The greatest risk is the one that you don’t take. You can achieve anything you believe.

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Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Tom Hopkins

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Jim Rohn

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Jim Rohn

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize.

Norman Vincent Peale

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.

Norman Vincet Peale

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it.

Norman Vincent Peale

In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.

Paul “Bear” Bryant

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Simone de Beauvoir

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Vince Lombardi

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Vince Lombardi

Better is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

Paradise is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

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Effective Leadership

Effective leadership and quality communication with the individuals that you work with will either make or break you. This applies to you whether you are a sales team, a creative team of designers, a sports team, co-workers, or a family. If you are not leading the team properly or effectively communicating, you are destined to fail. Follow these steps and you will learn to lead like the greatest leaders of all time. Memorize these 10 steps until you know them by heart.

Remember that by the time that someone gets to you, they have their own attitudes, habits, behaviors, and skills. It is up to the effective leader to change them into the successful individuals that you desire them to be. However, you must only desire the best for them so they can improve their lives, in return improving yours. You must always understand that if you take care of them, they will take care of you.

10 Steps to Effective Leadership

1. You earn respect by giving respect. The key to successful leadership is influence not authority. Don’t criticize, abuse, embarrass, or complain about your team. Point out their mistakes indirectly. Tell them about some of the mistakes you have made in the past. Talk about what you did to overcame them. If you lose someone’s confidence or respect, it may be difficult to get back.

2. Make sure everyone knows exactly what their roles are. Know exactly what you want each individual to do. General Eisenhower said, “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do what you want done because they want to do it.” Get your team excited to do what you want them to do. The best way to get someone to do something is to get them to want to do it. Effective leaders have been known to have the ability to get people doing what they don’t like doing, as they enjoy doing it.

3. Human beings starve for appreciation. Make each person feel important so you will create loyalty. Acknowledge even the smallest improvements and every time there is an improvement. Know the people on your team well so you know how to inspire them. Every individual is different so what may inspire one, will not inspire the other. Always be sincere with your team. Praise and appreciation may easily have a profound effect on an individual’s entire life.

4. Set their expectations high. Let them know what you expect from them while you encourage them to expect even more from themselves. Tell them on a regular basis that you believe in them and that you have faith in their abilities to achieve.

5. You can develop success from failures. Perfection takes time to achieve. Great leaders shows average achievers to achieve like superior achievers. Work with those individuals that are struggling because training them to be better is easier than starting all over with someone new. Have someone who is achieving mentor them until they are achieving similar results. Great leaders inspire individuals who are performing poorly to do better and help those who are doing great to do even greater.

6. Challenge them daily to achieve more. Inspire them to stretch their abilities to achieve results beyond their current capabilities. Set performance incentives and bonuses.

7. Lead them by example. Great leaders have followers. Lead them instead of pushing them.

8. Great leaders are masters of communication. See things from every individual’s point of view. Be a great listener. Get your team comfortable with talking and voicing their opinion, ideas, and concerns. If their is a problem, you want to immediately take care of it instead of letting the problem get bigger. Never forget to admit to your own mistakes. Never promise anything you can’t deliver.

9. Create a fun and enjoyable but extremely serious workplace. Tell them that when it is work time, it is “SHOW TIME”. You know what they say about “SHOW TIME”, and that is that the show must always go on. Set up after work fun time like parties, gatherings, and picnics. Let them know that this is a serious business and they can enjoy their work but this is also the way they make their living so they must always be serious.

10. Show them your reputation of a person with fine integrity. Give them an awesome reputation to emulate.

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An unknown 37 year old golfer named Y.E. Yang came out of nowhere to slay  the almighty Tiger while earning his first major championship victory by accomplishing what no other player of this generation had before him. Yang not only came from behind to defeat him, he did it while going head-to-head with him in the last pairing. Yang triumphed over the game’s top player in a way that had never occurred before. Yang made the impossible, possible. I repeat Yang, made the impossible, possible.

“I’ve sort of visualized this quite a few times playing against the best player in the history of golf, playing with him in the final round in a major championship, always sort of dreamed about this,” Yang said Sunday. “I’ve seen throughout Tiger’s career that a lot of players have folded probably on the last day when playing with him.

“So when I was at home or at a tournament watching Tiger in the clubhouse, I’d usually try to visualize and try to bring up a mock strategy how to win, if I ever played against Tiger.”

Yang, whose best finish in a major prior to Sunday was a tie for 30th at the 2007 Masters. Yang managed to keep the heat on Tiger. Yang was armed with the belief in his abilities and he obviously arrived with the perfect attitude to accomplish the goal.

Opportunities don’t go away, they just go to someone else. That someone else was Yang. No one told him that he couldn’t achieve the victory. No one told him that he couldn’t raise the trophy over his head while defeating Tiger. Besides, even if they did, I doubt he would have bought into it. It doesn’t matter what others believe you can achieve, it only matters what you believe you can achieve. You are only an underdog if you believe you are an underdog. Anything can happen on any given day if you believe in your abilities to make it happen. So many great players have tried to achieve what Yang accomplished, only to fail. I believed that these players have consistently failed to defeat Tiger because they defeat themselves mentally before they even try. I can’t stress enough that the greatest battle you will ever fight is the battle in your  mind. Are you a believer or a non-believer? Are you going to be an achiever or a non-achiever? Your life is entirely up to you. The million dollar question is, “What life are you going to create for yourself?”

The next time you face an incredibly difficult challenge in your life, in your work, or in your relationships you must step up to the challenge. You must rise to the occasion and overcome any obstacle that is in your path. Think that the impossible is possible. Believe without a doubt that you can achieve anything you desire. You are the master of your destiny. You are the creator of your future. Make your dreams come true by achieving the greatness that you desire. Why not you? Why not now? If Y.E. Yang can come out of nowhere to accomplish the impossible than so can you. Its up to you now, its up to you.

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Motivational quotes have been a huge inspiration to me over the years. When I would a hear motivational quote that I liked, I would immediately write it down and then I would memorize it. Once I memorized an awesome quote, it was mine forever. Whenever I had an opportunity to share an empowering quote with someone I would. Wisdom is a wonderful thing to discover, but there comes a duty with discovering wisdom. You must share your wisdom with others so they can continue to pass the wisdom on. Here is part 18 of my motivational quotes series. If you love motivational quotes, take some time to look at parts 1 – 17 so you can find the quotes that will bring out the best of you. Don’t forget to memorize them and share them with the world. Motivational quotes just inspire me so much that I can’t get enough of them.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

Buddha

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

Buddha

The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.

Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

Chinese Proverb

Encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

Dale Carnegie

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do & dare.

Dale Carnegie

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Edward Appleton

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Euripides

The pursuit of your dream is guaranteed to include some pain along the way but that just makes the taste of victory so much sweeter.

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Everyone in life gets knocked down, but life only rewards those who get back up.

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You will only grow as a person if you stretch your abilities to achieve outside your current capabilities. Never stop stretching.

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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Jim Rohn

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Norman Vincent Peale

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Norman Vincent Peale

Live your life and forget your age.

Norman Vincent Peale

Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger nation…. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward!

Thomas Edison

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Viktor Frankl

When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor Frankl

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Voltaire

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.  Voltaire

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Jim Rohn said, “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.” Therefore it is critical that you learn how to deal with failure. If you look at failure in a positive perspective instead of a negative one, you will definitely grow from any failure you experience in your life. Henry Ford said, “Win or learn, there is no failure.” Everyone in life will experience some kind of failure. If you don’t experience failure then you probably are not pushing yourself hard enough. When you happen to fail in life, embrace your failure as an opportunity to grow and get better. If you don’t embrace it as an opportunity to get better than you are destined to keep making the same mistakes. If you keep making the same mistakes and you expect a different outcome then you are insane according to Albert Einstein.

Analyze your failures and see what you can do different so you can achieve the outcomes that you desire. Usually the difference in failure and success is minimal. Discover what you are doing wrong and try something different so you can keep trying to achieve the results that you desire. If you continue to fail then keep changing your approach until you succeed. Thomas Edison, said, “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who didn’t realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison failed over 10,000 times until he succeeded when he was trying to invent electricity. He said, that he had no choice but to succeed because he was running out of options. That is the dedication that you need to have when you are trying to achieve great success.

Dale Carnegie said, “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by the people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” Failure is always overcome by persistence. Never give up the fight until you achieve the success that you desire. Failure only becomes permanent when you accept it as your final outcome. Those who achieve the greatest success were those individuals that refused to quit when they were chasing their dreams. You must refuse to quit if you experience any failure or setback. Everyone in life gets knocked down, but life only rewards those who get back up. Difficulties strengthen the soul, look at the positive side of your pain. What doesn’t break you will make you. Believe in your abilities to achieve and go out there and make it happen.

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1. Know exactly what you want your desired outcome to be.  Be very specific when you are stating your goals. Know exactly what it will take to achieve your desired success and write down an action plan for achieving it. Write down what actions you will have to take on a daily basis to achieve the success that you desire.

2. Be flexible in your approach. If you don’t get your desired outcome you must keep changing your approach until you succeed. Remember failure is not an option so never give up.  Henry Ford said, “Win or learn, there is no failure.” Nothing extraordinary has ever been accomplished without experiencing some failures and setbacks along the way. The most successful people in the world don’t believe in failure and neither should you. When faced with adversity, its critical that you believe that you can overcome anything that comes across your path.

3. Success leaves clues so model those achievers who have already achieved the success that you desire. You must duplicate their beliefs, their actions, and any other competitive edge that they use to be successful. The best are the best for a reason. Never forget that success leaves clues, it always has and it always will so model the top achievers so you  can duplicate their success.

4. You must understand that you are the master of your destiny. Focus on the future and never look back. You can’t change the past but what you can change is your future. You are in total control of your destiny so take charge and make the success that you desire happen. If you ever catch yourself losing focus just quickly take control and focus on achieving the success that you desire. You already have the power inside of you to achieve anything you desire. Unleash that power from within so you can manifest your destiny.

5. You must dedicate yourself to constant and never ending improvement. Everyday you should try to make yourself better than the day before. Stretch your abilities to achieve results outside of your current capabilities. If your personal development is not getting better on a daily basis you are only hurting yourself. The most successful people of all time were constantly improving their abilities to achieve so they could out perform their competition. Read as many personal development books as you can. Get an Ipod and load it up with motivation so you can inspire yourself whenever you get a chance. Focus on getting better by the day.

6. Success never comes easy so expect challenges along the way. Look forward to challenges as an opportunity to better yourself and learn. You know its a challenge so challenge it with your best. Its only impossible if you think it is. You can achieve anything you believe. Henry Ford said, “Whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can’t, you are right.” Believe that you can achieve anything you desire.

7. Your attitude is everything. Condition your attitude to be enthusiastic, persistent, and be determined to succeed. It is a proven fact that people with a positive mental attitude experience more success in every avenue of their lives.

8. Expect criticism from dream stealers and non-believers. They will try to discourage you if you give them the opportunity. Stay away from negative people at all cost. Remember criticism is a disguised compliment so don’t let it get to you. Use it as inspirational fuel to make your burning desire to succeed stronger than ever.

9. Become a master of your thoughts. Your life will follow your thoughts so it is critical you consistently focus on the most empowering thoughts. Power and control over your thoughts and actions will have you achieving the greatest outcomes of your life. Buddha said, “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” Elevate your life by elevating your thoughts. Your life will follow your dominant mental thoughts so consistently focus on the success that you desire. Use incredible thoughts to manifest your incredible life. All outcomes and experiences are a direct result of our dominant mental thoughts. If you think it, and believe it, then you will see it because your thoughts will become your reality.

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Motivational quotes have been a huge inspiration to me over the years. When I would a hear motivational quote that I liked, I would immediately write it down and then I would memorize it. Once I memorized an awesome quote, it was mine forever. Whenever I had an opportunity to share an empowering quote with someone I would. Wisdom is a wonderful thing to discover, but there comes a duty with discovering wisdom. You must share your wisdom with others so they can continue to pass the wisdom on. Here is part 17 of my motivational quotes series. If you love motivational quotes, take some time to look at parts 1 – 16 so you can find the quotes that will bring out the best of you. Don’t forget to memorize them and share them with the world. Motivational quotes just inspire me so much that I can’t get enough of them.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

Buddha

The pursuit of your dream is guaranteed to include some pain along the way but that just makes the taste of victory so much sweeter.

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Everyone in life gets knocked down, but life only rewards those who get back up.

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Who says you can’t? If you believe them you will never achieve. If you believe you can then there is nothing you can’t achieve.

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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Henry Ford

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Jim Rohn

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Les Brown

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us & produce miraculous results.

M Gandhi

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Philosopher

Hard training, easy combat; easy training, hard combat.
Marshal Suvorov, famous Russian General

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King jr.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King jr.

People will forget what U did, but people will never forget how U made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion.

Muhammad Ali

Whatever the mind of a man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Napoleon Hill

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

Napoleon Hill

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Napoleon Hill

We tend to get what we expect.

Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Norman Vincent Peale

Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how.’

Viktor Frankl

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Viktor Frankl

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On August 4, George Sodini walked into an L.A. Fitness Club in a Pittsburgh suburb armed with an unbelievable amount of hatred and three loaded handguns. Sodini was determined to kill as many women as he could before he committed suicide. He ended up killing three women and wounding nine others before claiming his own life.

Sodini’s hatred of women was developed from his strong belief that no women in the world would ever like him. He stated in his blog that he couldn’t understand why women ignored him, despite his best efforts to look nice, Sodini hadn’t had a girlfriend since 1984. Sodini said, “Women just don’t like me. There are 30 million desirable women in the US and I cannot find one. Not one of them finds me attractive,” the 48-year-old computer programmer stated in his chilling diary he posted on the Internet.

Sodini wasn’t a bad looking guy. He was in good shape and he had a good job. The problems were all in his heart and mind. His negative thoughts had created his incredibly miserable life. Any man in the world blessed with his life could have met wonderful women left and right. Unfortunately, Sodini created his own misfortune with women with his extreme negative thinking. His life ended up following his thoughts.

Your thoughts become your reality. If you believe everyone hates you, then you will never attract your soul mate because people will sense your hate. Negative thoughts will only manifest a negative life. You become unloveable as a person when you have conditioned yourself to think that no one in the world will ever love you. You can look like a super model and have a billion dollars and you still couldn’t find love if you think that you are unloveable.

The laws of attraction clearly states that whatever you think will eventually become your reality. To find love you need to give love wherever you go. You must infect your soul with everlasting love and spread your love to everyone you come accross. You need to be a loving and caring person if you want to receive love in your life. People don’t need to know what your thoughts are like because the laws of attraction will draw them to you if your share like thoughts. If you want to find your soul mate then you must believe without a doubt that your soul mate is out there. You must focus your thoughts on the qualities that you want in your soul mate and believe it will happen and before you know it the laws of attraction will manifest it for you.

1. Think it. 

2. Believe it.

3. Then you will see it.

Whether you are looking for your soul mate or you are looking for great friends, fill your heart with love and you will attract to yourself like minded people. The laws of attraction never fail, so attract the love and friendship that you desire by focusing your thoughts on everlasting love and incredible friendships. With love in our hearts we can change the world one heart beat at a time.

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