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FATHERS IN MOTIONBOOK I WISDOM OF THE AGES

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Copyright © Fathers In Motion, California USAwww.FathersInMotion.com

"Choices are the hinges of destiny”

~Pythagoras


" Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification”

~ Martin Fischer

A Father shares wisdom drawn from his reading, learning from others and lessons or decisions, be they good or bad, that he has learned along the way.

These are based on hard experience or from reflection. This is shared so your son or daughter learns from your Insights, hopefully to not make the same mistakes and learns from what you believe works.

This unit is a treasure trove! We include the five key learning principles from 52 books, for 52 weeks, from some of the world’s greatest sages, leaders and fathers who have a mass of wisdom to share. This includes writings from the 6th Century B.C. to today. Many fathers have not had the opportunity or the time to read the vast pool of books avaiable to them let alone had time to share these with theirgrowing child. We provide these in a summary version with our sincere purposethat you may dip into these, find those that resonate with you and merge themwith your own experiences - a vision to enrich both you and those around you. The art of life is both profound and its duration fleetingly short, so with our sincerelove for you and life’s journey!

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AUTHOR TITLE YEAR

1 Lao Tzu The Tao te Ching 6th Century B.C.2 Sun Tzu The Art of War 4th Century B.C.3 Marcus Aurelius Meditations AD 1704 Horatio Alger Ragged Dick 18675 Ralph Waldo Emerson The Selected Writings of 1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson 6 Orison Swett Marden Pushing to the Front, or 1894 Success under Difficulties 7 James Allen As A Man Thinketh 19038 Andrew Carnegie Autobiography of Andrew 1920 Carnegie 9 Russell Conwell Acres of Diamonds 192110 George Clason The Richest Man in Babylon 192611 Napoleon Hill Think & Grow Rich 193712 Florence Scovel Schinn The Secret Door to Success 194013 Dale Carnegie Stop Worrying And Start Living 194414 Vicktor Frankel Man's Search For Meaning 194615 Claude Bristol The Magic of Believing 194816 Les Giblin How to have Confidence and 1956 Power in Dealing with People 17 David Schwartz The Magic of Thinking Big 195918 Napoleon Hill & Success through a Positive 1960 W. Clement Stone Mental Attitude 19 Catherine Ponder The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity 196220 W. Timothy Gallwey The Inner Game of Tennis 197421 Zig Ziglar See You At The Top 197522 Tom Hopkins The Official Guide 1982 to Success 23 David Reynolds Constructive Loving 198424 Louise Hay You Can Heal Your Life 198425 Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power: The New 1986 Science of Personal Achievement 26 Warren Bennis On Becoming a Leader 198927 Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective 1989 People 28 Brian Tracy Maximum Achievement 199329 Deepak Chopra The Seven Spiritual Laws Of 1994 Success 30 Warren Buffet Buffet: The Making of an 1995 (by Roger Lowenstein) American Capitalist

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“You cannot do anythingabout the length of your lifebut you can do somethingabout it’s width and depth”

~Shira Tehrani

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR

31 Nathaniel Branden The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem 199532 Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad Poor Dad 199733 Don Miguel Ruiz The Four Agreements 199734 Spencer Johnson Who Moved My Cheese 199835 Cheryl Richardson Take Time for Your Life 199836 Debbie Ford The Dark Side Of The Light 1998 Chasers 37 Michael Dell Direct from Dell 199938 Dan Millman Body Mind Mastery 199939 Richard Koch The 80/20 Principle 199940 Bill Phillips Body For Life 199941 Thomas Stanley The Millionaire Mind 200042 Robin Sharma The Saint, The Surfer And The 2002 CEO 43 Martin Seligman Authentic Happiness 200244 Richard Wiseman The Luck Factor 200345 Byron Katie Loving What Is 200346 Jack Canfield The Success Principles 200447 Wayne Dyer The Power Of Intention 200548 Rhonda Byrne The Secret 200649 Russell Simmons Do You! 200750 Rupert McKerron How To Have A Big Life 200751 Marci Shimoff with Happy For No Reason 2008 Carol Kline52 Esther and Jerry Hicks Money, And The Law Of Attraction 2008

Bonus Extra:

A series of Quotations are included at the back of this Unit. You can use these or your own favorite quotes to weave into your conversations to enhance your content when sharing stories and wisdom with your Son.

Read well, think clearly.

Expose his mind to good stuff, eventually good stuff will come out!

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Book 1

- 6th Century B.C.

- Philosopher in ancient China

- Central figure in Chinese culture

- Name of book means“The Way”

Lao TzuThe Tao te Ching

• I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion.

• A great nation is like a man. When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it.

• The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings.

• Prevent trouble before it arises.

• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.

KEY ELEMEnT

If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.

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BOOK 2

- 4th century B.C.

- Same era as Confucius in Northern China

- Brilliant military strategist

- Not only about war but about an approach to life

- Widely used in business schools and by business leaders

Sun TzuThe Art of War

• Leadership through character: have self knowledge, observe others and the situation for knowledge is the principal weapon.

• Be attuned to the Tao, the guiding spirit of the Universe.

• The ultimate warrior is one who wins the war by forcing the enemy to surrender without fighting any battles.

• Take the larger view and see the whole situation clearly, control the form of engagement without reacting to it.

• Do not prolong but seek to be a master of timing, if you battle then build momentum and strike hard and get away quickly.

War is the ultimate form of conflict.

The best way to approach conflict is be detached for the angry general loses.

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BOOK 3

- 170 A.D., often translated

- Journal of a Roman Emperor in a war campaign

Marcus AureliusMeditations

• Never confuse yourself by visions of an entire lifetime at once.

• The approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.

• When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help.

• Everything – a horse, a vine – is created for some duty… for what task, then, were you yourself created? A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.

• Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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BOOK 4

- 1867

- Horatio was admitted to Harvard at 16 and spoke four languages

- He ran away to Paris at one stage

- Returned to USA, ordained as a minister and focused on plight of disadvantaged children

- Novel of a poor boy in New York in squalid 1800’s who goes from shining shoes to respectability and wealth

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Horatio AlgerRagged Dick

• Be diligent, seek good fortune and you will make your own luck

• Whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability

• Be a reader

• Save, but be generous

• Honesty, never cheat, steal or lie

• Do not drink or smoke

Whatever you do, do it honestly and to the best of your ability and you will make your own luck

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BOOK 5

- 1882

- 19th Century leading American philosopher

Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Selected Writings Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Trust thyself.

• Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

• Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do.

• Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be

executed!

• Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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BOOK 6

- 1894

- Book has 70 chapters and 900 pages and a seminal work of its time

- Lived in foster homes after parents died when he was only 7

- Several Harvard degrees

- He built and subsequently lost a hotel chain business

- Published on average two books a year

Orison Swett Marden Pushing To The Front, or Success Under Difficulties

• Follow your calling – do whatever you choose, yet become a master at it.

• A slow penny is surer than a quick dollar.

• Nerve, pluck, persistence and grit.

• Overcome difficulties for character is built through adversity.

• Seize common occasions and make them great.

There are few things that cannot be achieved by sheer determination and effort.

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BOOK 7

- 1903, republished several times and is a small 48-page book

- Did not finish school, having to work early to support family as father was murdered

- At 38, moved to small cottage to a life of contemplation

- Enduring classic for over a century

- Wrote 19 books in Victorian England

James AllenAs A Man Thinketh

• You will be what you will to be. The oak sleeps in the acorn.

• A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

•The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. With unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay.

• The dreamers are the saviors of the world. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.

• There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

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BOOK 8

- 1920

- In his day, the world’s richest man

- Born 1835, self made he started as a railway clerk

- Worked his way to building the largest iron and steel factory

- Donated $100 million to public libraries

Andrew CarnegieAutobiography of Andrew Carnegie

• Leaders are readers and wealth is created from better knowledge and better thinking.

• Master you: master your moods, ensuring a sunny disposition; to be ‘yourself’ you have to have spent time working out who you are; travel broadens a man.

• Talk to people, not at them; enlarge your circle.

• Work with others, using their reputations and spreading risk.

• Seek knowledge and value with higher motives, not money alone.

Focus, for ‘I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved prominence in money-making….who was interested in many concerns’.

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BOOK 9

- 1921- Author fought in the Civil

War as a commissioned officer

- He was a lawyer, travelling reporter and pastor, founding Temple University in Philadelphia

- Fable of man who lived in Persia who sold his farm to go seek his fortune, yet it ended in death and tragedy

- On the farm he sold, the new owner noticed a glint in the watery sands, acres of diamonds

Russell ConwellAcres of Diamonds

• Be open-minded.

• Great service is basic to prosperity.

• Genuine service is simple.

• Leave time for meditation and contemplation of your diamonds that are likely to be so near.

• Greatest people are always straightforward.

Wealth is often close by and folly going off to seek your fortune.

There is no need to look beyond yourself and your immediate circumstances to find the seeds of your fortune.

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BOOK 10

- 1926

- More than 1.5 million copies sold

- Fable of two poor friends, a musician and chariot builder, in ancient Babylon who seek a wealthy friend’s advice as wealth does not create happiness, it does enhance the quality of life

George ClasonThe Richest Man in Babylon

• Law 1: pay yourself first, money comes to those who save 10%

• Law 2: money multiplies for those who invest it

• Law 3: money stays with the person who entrusts it to wise people

• Law 4: money is lost when invested in things with which you are not familiar

• Law 5: money is lost at a fast rate when pursuing get-rich-quick schemes

Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it, but with wisdom, gold can be secured by those who have it not.

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BOOK 11

- 1937

- 15 million copies

- Born 1883 in a poor one room cabin

- Advisor to President Roosevelt 20 years interviewing wealthy tycoons including Ford, Edison & Andrew Carnegie

- His quest was to understand “how the wealthy become that way”

Napoleon HillThink & Grow Rich

•Wealth creation is a product of the mind, combining reasoning, imagination and tenacity

•Attuned to Infinite Intelligence is a source of ideas and ultimately wealth

• Thoughts create their physical equivalent overtime

• Natural sexual energy can be harnessed and channeled

•Uniqueness, expressed in a refined idea or product, consistently focused upon will lead to great monetary reward

Tend to the source of wealth, which is inherently intangible (faith, vision and persistence)

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BOOK 12

- 1940

- Published shortly before her death

- Uses Biblical and related illustrative stories

- Artistic career and children’s book illustrator

- Published shortly before her death

- Author of several successful books

Florence Scovel SchinnThe Secret Door to Success

• Let go long enough for the law of attraction to operate, you have never seen an anxious magnet

• In a relaxed state of expectancy, expect the best

• Prepare for good things and act, prosperously

• Intuition is the Infinite Intelligence’s magic

• Practice faith over fear for success is a system

Have faith and dissolve your barriers through positive expectations.

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BOOK 13

- 1944, republished many times

- More than 6 million copies sold

- Recognized leader in self improvement teachings

Dale CarnegieHow To Stop Worrying And Start Living

• Live in “day-tight compartments”

• Stop going around in circles, arrive at a fixed purpose and make definite decisions

• Don’t cry over spilled milk

• Rest often, before you get tired, just learn how to relax

• Realize that people are not thinking about you and rather focus on getting busy

Worry will make you ill. Given that knowledge isn’t power until applied:

1. Write down what is worrying you 2. Write down what you can do about it 3. Decide what to do 4. Start immediately to carry out that decision

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Book 14

- 1946, republished 1997

- Holocaust survivor

- M.D. and PhD

- Chronicles Nazi concentration camp experiences

Viktor FrankelMan’s Search For Meaning

• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstance, to choose one’s own way.

•Discover life’s meaning in (a) having a deed (b) experience and encounters with others (c) attitude we adopt to suffering

• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

•Logotherapy: man’s main concern is fulfilling a meaning and actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification of drives.

• Don’t aim at success as a target, for like happiness it cannot be pursued, it must ensure as an unintended consequence of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

• Be unique but it will be difficult – everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it, what is to give light must endure burning.

We have ultimate responsibility for choosing our responses to challenges and manifesting our personal meaningful life. Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire – a man who has nothing can still have bliss.

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BOOK 15

- 1948

- Author was a World War I soldier, journalist and speaker eventually becoming an investment banker and businessman

- The book is difficult to read yet simple in its message

Claude BristolThe Magic of Believing

• Belief underpins destiny, your subconscious servant.

• The intensity of your beliefs and thoughts act as a transmitter to future events.

• Mental pictures of wealth are as positive as mental pictures of what you fear, are destructive.

• The terrific force of thought repetition, combined with action.

• Developing a ‘knowing’ in your beliefs is the main determinant of success.

The golden thread is Belief. Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.

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BOOK 16

- 1956

- Author of several books

- Skills consultant to large U.S. companies

- Recognized as Salesman of the Year (1965)

Les GiblinHow to have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People

• Recognize everyone has a divine spark within them.

• Believe each person you deal with is important.

• Calmly present the facts, allowing each to make up their own mind, do not force the argument.

• Self esteem is important - do not put the other person in a position where they need to save face, be sarcastic or poke fun.

• Engage and draw forth relaxed friendliness.

Genuinely give appreciation and acceptance of others.

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BOOK 17

- 1959

- Several million copies sold

- Author’s belief that a person is best measured by the size of their dreams

- Professor at Georgia State University

- Businessman and author of several bestsellers

David SchwartzThe Magic of Thinking Big

• Big ideas and big plans are no more difficult than small plans.

• Plenty of room at the top – enlarge your personal desire and imagination of yourself and act on it.

• Spend time alone with your thoughts and find the quiet route to success.

• “Excusitis” is failure’s disease, use conscious self-belief.

• Go first class, get advice and spend time with successful people.

Believe Big, the size of your success is determined by the size of your desires and belief.

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BOOK 18

- 1960

- W. Clement Stone, died age 100, born in poverty and self made, donated $275 million to charity

- Napoleon Hill was advisor

to President Roosevelt and for 20 years interviewed wealthy tycoons including Ford, Edison & Andrew Carnegie

Napoleon Hill & W. Clement StoneSuccess through a Positive Mental Attitude

• “It can be done” philosophy where focus on faith and not fear.

• Embrace life for wealth is attracted to those who have pleasing personalities whose attitude is big, generous and merciful.

• First 5 Principles: positive mental attitude; definiteness of purpose; going the extra mile; accurate thinking; self discipline.

• The next 5 Principles: the master mind; applied faith; a pleasing personality; personal initiative; enthusiasm.

• The last 7 Principles: controlled attention; teamwork; learning from defeat; creative vision; budgeting time and money; maintain physical and mental health; using cosmic or universal force.

A clear goal matched with a consistent Positive Mental Attitude can transform your life.

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BOOK 19 - 1962

- She studied business before becoming an ordained minister

- Has written twelve books

- Sought after lecturer across the nation

Catherine Ponder The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

• Poverty is not a virtue, it is a vice

• Desire + visualization + affirmation = success

• Prosperity is circulation, not congestion, and make way for growth

• Systematic giving

• Prosperity thinking is a healthy state of mind that has a positive attitude to money

Appreciate universe’s abundance and your right to prosperity.

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BOOK 20

- 1974

- Harvard University tennis captain

- Professional coach

- Inner Game series for tennis, golf, skiing, music and work

W. Timothy GallweyThe Inner Game of Tennis

• Conscious trying too hard often produces negative results.

• Watching success is more impactful than critical instruction.

• Your two selves, the mental coach and the one who actually plays.

• Quiet your mind and mental clutter, do not judge a shot or yourself.

• Reward is not winning, the larger game is calmly playing to the best of your ability.

Secret is not to try too hard – keep the mind calm, trusting the body to get into spontaneous flow.

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BOOK 21

- 1975

- Sold over 2 million copies and re-issued in 2000

- Book is timeless yet rambles with many stories and old-fashion views

- Poor childhood in Great Depression, one of 12 siblings

- From cookware salesman to top motivational speaker

- Spoken alongside USA Presidents and active in youth drug avoidance

- Author of several books

Zig ZiglarSee You At The Top

• You are born to win, create goals and you must commit them to paper.

• You are what you take in for they will manifest in your personality, be it television, pornography or good reading, seek out the best. Best guide to your conduct is the people you spend time with.

• Success builds upon a solid marriage, the key to that is loyalty.

• Keep life fresh by avoid the hardening of attitudes and seek out good habits.

• Do not be ‘phoney’, build strong values of hard work, spiritual faith and service based on taking care of the physical, spiritual and mental.

You can have everything in life if you will just help others get what they want.

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BOOK 22

- 1982

- Dropped out of college

- Author of 12 Bestsellers

- International Top Sales Trainer

Tom HopkinsThe Official Guide to Success

• Successful men are ruthless with their time.

• Winners do the most productive thing possible at each given moment.

• Choose to flip your switch from lose to win.

• Continually grow and create new goals and expectations.

• Go beyond goals and have a greater aim.

The most valuable thing you can ever own is your image of yourself as a winner in the great game of life – act as if you are marked out for great things.

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BOOK 23

- 1984

- Authority on Japanese psychotherapies

- World Health Organization advisor in China

- Published in university and popular press in multiple languages

David ReynoldsConstructive Living

• Accept and listen to your feelings. The best way to influence how you feel is by your consistent behavior.

• Ask in every moment “now, what needs to be done”.

• Feelings Follow Behavior: do not DO depression, slumping your body, repeating same negative phrases.

• Miserable people tend to be self-focused, we do then we feel!

• Our behavior is controllable in a way our feelings are not. Work on the self by developing control of our actions.

• Accept fear as a healthy emotion yet keep it in check, accept life as it is now with no need to wish it were otherwise.

We cannot control our feelings directly, do what needs to be done regardless of whether you feel terrible or great.

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BOOK 24

- 1984

- 30 million copies in 35 countries

- She founded Hay House Publishing Company

Louise HayYou Can Heal Your Life

• Turn “I should” into “I could choose to”.

• Some things and some thoughts will not serve you so let them go, do mental house cleaning.

• Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem.

• Do not worry about money, a bill means some-one trusted you .

• Do not be critical of yourself, lovingly see yourself as the child you were. Think thoughts that make you happy.

Approve of yourself, exactly as you are.

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BOOK 25

- 1986

- Recognized motivational and self-help leader

- Based on principles of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming)

- His foundation does substantial charity work

- His company is a prolific producer of coaching and life-skills material

Anthony RobbinsUnlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

• Model successful people’s behavior and habits.

• Success lies in your simple ability to take action.

• Run your brain, manipulate out negative films and reframe events positively.

• Great goals produce great action.

• Build rapport skills with others as a conscious skill.

Success leaves clues, model successful people and act upon this.

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BOOK 26

- 1989

- Bennis fought in World War II and has a PhD from MIT

- Leading figure in academic research in leadership

- He is on the board of several renown Universities

- He interviewed many U.S. leaders, including Neil Armstrong who went to the moon and Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds

Warren BennisOn Becoming a Leader

• Life is not a competition, but a flowering of seeking your potential.

• Leadership is the act of becoming more true to yourself, an engagement with life itself.

• Heroes are made, not borne, and it is a conscious decision.

• Personal integrity, a compelling vision and ability to enjoy risk and uncertainty define leadership.

• Amazon the Internet retailer: “Word hard, play hard, change the world”.

Leadership is being interested in expressing yourself, not proving yourself.

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BOOK 27

- 1989

- Time voted him one of top 25 most influential Americans

- University Professor - His company does over

$500 million revenue in Leadership and Performance

- Author fought in the Civil War as a commissioned officer

Stephen CoveyThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• Habit 1 Be proactive (Personal Choice)

• Habit 2 Begin with the end in mind (Personal Vision)

• Habit 3 Put first things first (Integrity & Execution)

• Habit 4 Think Win/Win (Mutual Benefit)

• Habit 5 Seek first to understand, then to be understood (Mutual Understanding)

• Habit 6 Synergize (Mutual Creation)

• Habit 7 Renewal (Balanced Self-Renewal)

Good character, balance and effort – you reap what you sow.

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BOOK 28

- 2000

- Grew up in poverty wearing charity store clothes

- Worked on Norwegian freighter and travelled the world

- Wanderer to a focused person with an MBA and a top salesman

Brian TracyMaximum Achievement

• Become an expert of setting and writing goals for we are shaped by our ambitions.

• Less than 3% of people have written goals.

• No unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

• Goals to be congruent with what brings you inner peace.

• Loving relationships and acquiring knowledge through reading should feature high on your goal setting.

The Master Skill is written, clear goals.

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BOOK 29

- 1994

- Several International Bestsellers

- Seminars and workshops with attendees who travel from all over the world

Deepak ChopraThe Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success

• Law of Karma: listen with the heart and witness choices each moment.

• Law of Least Effort: practice acceptance and take responsibility.

• Law of Giving & Receiving: circulation is abundance in all things.

• Law of Pure Potentiality: meditate, commune with nature and practice non-judgment.

• Law of Intention & Desire: be silent, list your desires and give them over to the Universe.

• Law of Detachment: no rigid or forced solutions, be open to uncertainty and infinite possibilities.

• Law of Dharma: discover the higher self, use your unique talents and serve others.

Success is finding joy and the ability to fulfill desires with effortless ease.

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BOOK 30

- 1995

- World’s second most wealthiest man

- Self made $100,000 into over $35 billion

- Poor upbringing made him obsess over how to create wealth, starting with paper delivery routes

- Still lives in same small home bought in 1950’s in Omaha Nebraska, publicly has wife and a girlfriend

- Donates billions of dollars to charity

Warren Buffet (by Roger Lowenstein)The Making of an American Capitalist

• ‘Value investing” emphasizing research, analysis and looking only to the facts of fundamental business value.

• Frugal

• Take risks based on research, do not gamble.

• Long term magic of compounding interest.

• Hold on to good investments for the long term.

Success requires perseverance and courage to stick to your decisions.

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BOOK 31

- 1995

- Author of 20 books, 4 million copies in 18 languages

- PhD, lecturer, psychologist and International leading figure in self-esteem

Nathaniel BrandenThe Six Pillar’s Of Self-Esteem

• Practice means a way of behaving that is also a way of being. Small improvements make a big difference.

• The Practice of Living Consciously

• The Practice of Self-Acceptance

• The Practice of Self-Responsibility

• The Practice of Self-Assertiveness

• The Practice of Living Purposefully

• The Practice of Personal Integrity

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourself. Refuse to be in an adversarial relationship with yourself or what makes you happy.

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BOOK 32

- 1997

- Born in Hawaii

- A Marine and ex-Xerox salesman, made his fortune as entrepreneur and investing

- Born in Hawaii

- His firm produces finance educational products and book series

Robert KiyosakiRich Dad, Poor Dad - What The Rich Teach Their Children

• The rat race working for a pay check is a fear based mind set.

• Specialization and working for money is better served by accumulating assets and let the money work for you.

• Be educated, put effort into becoming financially literate.

• Be disciplined, control your money through controlling your emotions and separate greed from sound financial decisions.

• Opportunities come from new ideas.

The key knowledge of the wealthy lies in understanding that anything that does not grow or generate a return, is a liability.

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BOOK 33

- 1997

- Grew up in rural Mexico in a family of healers

- Bestselling author and surgeon

Don Miguel RuizThe Four Agreements

• First Agreement: Be Impeccable With Your Word

• Second Agreement: Don’t Take Anything Personally

• Third Agreement: Don’t Make Assumptions

• Fourth Agreement: Always Do Your Best

The first step toward personal freedom is awareness.

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BOOK 34

- 1998

- 12 million copies

- Medical doctor and author of several bestsellers

- Fable of mice in a maze confronted with change, someone moved their cheese

- Fable of dealing with loss and change generally, think relationships, savings, jobs

Spencer JohnsonWho Moved My Cheese

• There will be other cheeses

• Loss through change can devastate, or can choose to laugh and move on

• What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

• Creatively visualize finding new cheese

• Feel the fear and do it anyway

When life happens and your cheese is moved, move on and accept the next challenge, it is about perspective.

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BOOK 35

- 1998

- Book was a New York Times Bestseller

- On Oprah and Today Shows

- Professional Speaker

Cheryl RichardsonTake Time for Your Life

• Slowing down to succeed

• Put yourself first

•Your schedule should reflect your priorities

• Pay others to do tasks to free your valuable time

• Take responsibility for your financial health

Regular ‘downtime’ and reflection is important for your sanity and success.

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BOOK 36

- 1998

- Five times New York Times bestseller

- Coach and TV appearance personality

Debbie FordThe Dark Side Of The Light Chasers

• The shadow inside is the person you would rather not be.

• White, like perfect love, is not the absence of color but the inclusion of all color.

• The divine and the diabolical lie dormant within us, look within to your own psyche, integrate and see this is OK to become whole.

• List your least favorite attributes, play with them until you can see the gifts in these. Divine is not perfect, it is being whole.

• Be gentle with others and do not judge harshly, gently watching for some of your attributes in others.

Whether you like it or not, if you are human you have a shadow or attributes you do not like. Become whole by seeing them and their gift to you.

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BOOK 37

- 1999

- Started Dell, computers direct to consumers

- Loved taking computers apart, idea germinated in freshman year

- Multi-billion dollar company with over 40,000 employees

- Self-made

Michael DellDirect from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry

• Think unconventionally

• Despise the status quo

• Set big goals that may just be do-able

• Love change

• Focus on your possibilities

Do fewer things, better. The simpler you make life for people, the more valuable you will be.

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BOOK 38 - 1999

- Former world champion athlete

- College Professor

- Bestselling author published in more than 20 languages

Dan MillmanBody Mind Mastery

• You reshape your life by being aware and integrating your body, mind and emotions through training.

• Fear of failure generates vicious circles that create what you fear. Make peace with failure, treating as an old friend playing a practical joke.

• Be free of self-criticism, just keep practicing and be gentle with yourself.

• Stay relaxed and focus on constructive action.

• Your body will sculpt over time with daily habits of exercise and diet so keep your desire for change strong.

This, and every moment, is the moment of truth. Freedom from mental distractions equals power.

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BOOK 39

- 1999

- Author, businessman and consultant

- Several International bestsellers

Richard KochThe 80/20 Principle

• Pareto Principle of 80/20 is everywhere – 20% of people own 80% of wealth; 20% of criminals commit 80% of crimes.

• 20% of what you do yields 80% of results, with 80% of your effort yielding very little, the Principle of Least Effort.

• Applies to goals, business, friends, diet, relationships and all areas of your life.

• Be unreasonable and go after big, but few, focused goals.

• Spend time and emotional energy only those things that are important to you.

20% of effort gets 80% of results. Target a limited number of activities and goals and ruthlessly focus - do less to achieve more!

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BOOK 40

- 1999

- A New York Times Bestseller

- 12 week training and diet regimen

- Hundreds of thousands used the program

- Inspirational personal case stories

Bill PhillipsBody For Life

• Identify reasons to change, get a future vision of yourself and decide to change.

• Identify 3 old habits holding you back and 3 new empowering habits.

• Eat 6 small healthy meals per day having carbohydrates and protein, including vegetables with at least two of the meals.

• Muscle is 70% water, drink 10 glasses per day.

• Alternate days, 20 minutes aerobic exercise and 45 minute strength training (Sunday’s free). Repetitions not as important as building to High Points (maximum intensity) per muscle group.

Can transform your body in 12 weeks, when you gain control of your body, you will gain control of your life.

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BOOK 41

- 2000

- Author interviewed and questioned over 700 wealthy people

- Part of successful bestseller Millionaire series

- Holds a business doctorate and was a Professor at Georgia University

Thomas StanleyThe Millionaire Mind

• Wealth is linked to courage and belief in their ability to generate wealth.

• Do a variety of jobs, then settle to do work that you love to do.

• The harder you work, the luckier you get.

• Millionaire’s are frugal yet don’t do DIY, control you finances from the start and do not be reliant on credit.

• A successful marriage is a significant factor in success.

Millionaire minds are not born, they are a set of habits and attitudes anyone can cultivate.

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BOOK 42

- 2002

- Former lawyer, now bestselling author and professional speaker

- Fictional work of Jack Valentine who meets his Dad’s mentors

- Also wrote, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, an International bestseller

Robin SharmaThe Saint, The Surfer And The CEO

• Saint’s insight: trust and open up to how the world really works. To thine own self be true, direct yourself at what you love to do.

• Surfer’s insight: reflect, if your inner world is healthy and complete, the simplest basic things will fill your heart and soul.

• Surfer’s insight: live with a greater sense of perspective and appreciation of life and the truth.

• Surfer’s insight: live your best life.

• CEO insight: the one who gives the most, wins (do the best you can and serve others).

There is a sleeping giant inside everyone, miracles happen when you open your inner self and that giant awakes.

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BOOK 43

- 2002

- Former President of the American Psychological Association

- Bestselling author

- University Professor

Martin SeligmanAuthentic Happiness

• Happiness and well-being are the desired outcomes of Positive Psychology.

• Through the ages, the six core virtues are : (1) wisdom and knowledge (2) courage (3) love and humanity (4) sense of justice (5) temperance (6) spirituality and transcendence.

• Do not devote overly much effort to correcting your weaknesses, build and use your signature strengths.

• Wealth creates a ‘pleasant life’, a good life is using your signature strengths daily to produce authentic happiness and abundance.

• Beyond a job or career, for if you can find a way to use your signature strengths at work often, and they also contribute to the greater good, you have a calling.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

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BOOK 44

- 2003

- Started as a professional magician

- Doctorate from Edinburgh University

- Book followed an eight year study

- Several scholarly articles and television appearances business advisor and lecturer

Richard WisemanThe Luck Factor

• The lucky personality creates, notices and acts upon chance opportunities in their lives to manufacture their luck.

• Have a relaxed attitude to people and life, the openness to new experiences allows you see what is there.

• Trust your intuition and foster a better relationship with your unconscious.

• Expect the best, believe and persevere as this becomes self-fulfilling.

• Lucky people also have bad times, yet they seek out the learning experience and never believe that their bad times are permanent.

Luck is less related to chance than we may think, it is about a lucky mindset and approach to life.

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BOOK 45

- 2003

- Several bestsellers

- Her mission is to end suffering due to stressful

beliefs and see reality

Byron KatieLoving What Is

• When I argue with reality, I lose. • Stay in your business and out of others, see everything as a friend.

• Do not be overwhelmed by stressful thoughts but they are compassionate alarm clocks alerting us.

• Problems often misperception in wrong thinking.

• Throw “should” away, stress comes from the stories we tell ourselves.

Take a stressful thought and ask

- Is it true? - Can I absolutely know it is true? - How do I react when I think that thought? - Who would I be without the thought? - Turn it around and state it as an opposite and reflect!

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BOOK 46

- 2004

- He has sold more than100 million copies, including Chicken Soup for the Soul series

- Success coach with audiences across 20 countries

Jack CanfieldThe Success Principles

• Take 100% responsibility

• Get a purpose and be clear why you are here, believing the world and events will conspire to help you achieve.

• Make a list of 30 things you want to do, 30 things you want to have and 30 things you want to be, before you die.

• It is all about attitude and being prepared to do your own push-ups.

• Focus on your goals and remember that others are not thinking about you but are too busy worrying about their own lives.

If you are clear where you are going and take several steps in that direction everyday, you eventually have to get there.

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BOOK 47

- 2005

- Holds a PhD

- Internationally acclaimed speaker and author of more than 30 books

Wayne DyerThe Power Of Intention

• Act as if everything you desire is already here.

• Four steps of intention are Discipline, Wisdom, Love and Surrender.

• Hit the delete button every time fear appears.

• Contemplate what you want instead of what you don’t have.

• Say ‘Yes’ to life, you must be what it is you are seeking; if you want peace, start by being peace.

Surrender, there is a force greater than you guiding the universe and manifesting your desires. Relax and trust this power of intention.

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BOOK 48

- 2006

- Many thought leaders contributed to book

- Global phenomena and International accompanying film release

- Record rate of sales for the first 5 million copies sold

Rhonda ByrneThe Secret

• Law of Attraction means ‘like attracts like’, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting ‘like’ thoughts and events to you.

• Nothing, good or bad, can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.

• Step 1: Ask

• Step 2: Believe

•Step 3: Receive

• To receive, you must be open and feel good.

Questions

The Great Secret of Life is the Law of Attraction.

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BOOK 49

- 2007

- “Innovative and influential figure” - New York Times

- Hip-hop mogul

- Uses inspiring stories to teach the lessons

- Spiritual entrepreneur

Russell SimmonsDo You!

• See your vision and stick with it. Focus on your effort instead of results of that effort.

• Focus on Doing You, meditate for a clear and focused mind and it will last a lifetime.

• Start each day by reflecting on all the things you can be grateful for, love the world!

• Use your talents and do not stall for the pain of avoiding work is more than the actual work itself.

• Age ain’t nothing but a number and the biggest thing that separates you from the success you seek is fear.

Questions

In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.

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BOOK 50

- 2007

- Merchant Banker and entrepreneur

- Left London due to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to pursue his dreams in South Africa

Rupert McKerronHow To Have A Big Life

• Your talent brings you joy and points to your purpose in life, so listen to your feelings and intuition to follow your dreams.

• Control and mock the anxious little voice of your conscious mind.

• Daily repetition of positive affirmation statements, even if not feel right initially, to guide the subconscious.

• Have big written goals that are unique for you, understanding you will not get there in a straight line – just do it!

• Enjoy living in the present and choose to see the world, not as tough or unfair, but abundant and full of opportunities.

Questions

Do what is right for YOU.

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BOOK 51

- 2008

- New York Times bestselling author

- Co-author of five Chicken Soup for the Soul Series

- Featured in The Secret

sensation

- Prolific International speaker

Marci Shimoff with Carol KlineHappy For No Reason

• Depression is a global illness. Do not pursue happiness, make a habit of it.

• Internal “happiness setpoint” that is 50% genetic, 10% circumstances and wealth but 40% habitual thoughts and feelings. Increase your setpoint by looking at your habits.

• Respond to events in a way that supports your inner peace, quieten your mind and Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs), authentically be velcro for positivity and teflon for negativity.

• Cherokee Indian story – inside each person are two battling wolves, Unhappiness and Happiness. Which will win? The one that you feed.

• Actively remove “blaming” and have the true intention to notice everything good.

Questions

Happy for no reason is not a grinning fool. It is about an underlying state of well-being where you live from happiness rather than for happiness.

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BOOK 52

- 2008

- International Bestseller - Claims to channel from

spiritual link

- Abraham-Hicks teachings Hold workshops in 60 cities per year

Esther and Jerry HicksMoney, And The Law Of Attraction

• Most valuable skill is directing your thoughts to what you want, then giving undivided attention to that.

• Consciously pivot out of negative thoughts to positive when they arise.

• There is nothing you cannot be or do and your work here is to seek joy.

• Shortage of a connection to the Energy that creates the world is at the heart of any shortage you experience in other areas.

• For when you feel good, you are in harmony with your greater intent.

Questions

Nothing more detrimental to positively attract the life you want, are negative emotions and thoughts.

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QUOTES - WISDOM SOUND BITES

Kernels of truth are often evident in short quotations

I call it Bumper Sticker insight

Read through some of these, if any resonant or catch your eye, think on why that is and what truth lies within the quote that would enhance your life if acted upon

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“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done”

~ Henry Longfellow

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds”~Joseph Conrad - Achievement

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts” ~John Locke - Achievement

“Action is eloquence” ~Shakespeare - Achievement

“Better to wear out than rust out” ~Anonymous - Action

“Nothing accomplishes nothing”~Bahya Paguda - Action

“Lose an hour in the morning and you will be looking for it the rest of the day” ~Lord Chesterfield - Action

“To be or not to be, that is your decision” ~Pat Paradwoski - Action

“There is only one proof of ability - results. Men with ability in action get results” ~Harry Banks - Action

“Adventures are to the adventurous” ~Benjamin Disraeli - Adventure

“If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain”~Dolly Parton - Adversity

“Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records” ~William Arthur Ward - Adversity

“It is difficulties that show what men are” ~Epictetus - Adversity

“Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold” ~Alain de Lille - Appearances

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“Excellence can be attained if you…care more than the others think is wise; risk more than the others think is safe; dream more than others think is practical and expect more than others think is possible”

~Anonymous - Attitude

“We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own” ~Joseph Joubert - Arguments

“Your attitude determines your altitude” ~Zig Ziglar - Attitude

“A new attitude…invariable creates a new result” ~Anonymous - Attitude

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”~ Mark Twain - Attitude

“If you think you can, or if you think you cannot; You are probably right” ~Henry Ford - Beliefs

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go” ~T.S Elliot - Boldness

“A life in fear is a life half lived” ~Anonymous - Boldness

“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”~Dolores Ibarruri - Boldness

“Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few word”~The Bible - Ecclesiasticus 32:8 Brevity

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing”~Ralph Waldo Emerson - Business

“Good bargains are pick-pockets”~Thomas Fuller - Business

“The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one”~George Herbet - Business

“Be ever watchful of advice where the giver stands to gain”~Anonymous - Business

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“When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavour, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.”

~Mark Twain

“The only certainty is that nothing is certain”~Pliny the Elder - Certainty

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one” ~Voltaire - Certainty

“Things are not to happen to you, they must happen because of you”~Anon - Change

“The easiest way to manage change is to create it”~Dr. Molapo - Change

“A prisoner of the past; or pioneer of the future”~Anon - Change

“If you want something that you have never had before; You must do something you have never done before”~Anon - Change

“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson - Character

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody” ~Mark Twain - Character

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.~Mark Twain - Character

”As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”~James Allen - Character

“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others”~Hasidic saying - Confidence

“They can because they think they can”~Virgil - Confidence

“You can do anything in this world if you're prepared to take the consequences”~W. Somerset Maugham - Consequences

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

~Henry David Thoreau

“When written in Chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity”

~John F. Kennedy

“They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” ~The Bible: Hosea 8:7 - Consequences

“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago” ~Bernard Berenson - Consistency

“There is no such thing as a conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting mono-logues, that is all”~Rebecca West - Conversation

“One man with courage is a majority” ~Andrew Jackson - Courage

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear” ~Mark Twain - Courage

“Courage is failing repeatedly without losing enthusiasm”~Winston Churchill - Courage

“When we make a committed decision to change, we switch roles from slave to master”~Steve Wharton - Courage

“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”~Anais Nin - Courage

“If you don''t have the courage to face your fear, you will spend your life in the wings” ~Anais Nin - Courage

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” ~Anais Nin - Courage

“Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic”~Jean Sibelius - Critics

“The three D's: Desire, Determination and Discipline”~Dr. Molapo - Desire

“There are only three ways to change the trajectory of our lives: crises, chance or choice”~Sarah Ban Breathnack - Destiny

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“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice” ~Anonymous Destiny

“Conform and be dull”~James Frank Dobie - Different

“Diplomacy - The art of saying "Nice doggie" till you can find a rock”~Wynn Catlin - Diplomacy

“Celebrate diversity”~Mike Lipkin - Diversity

“Desire is the very essence of man”~Benedict de Spinoza - Dreams

“As long as you are going to think, you might as well think BIG”~Donald Trump - Dreams

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do”~Eleanor Roosevelt - Dreams

“In dreams begins responsibility”~W.B. Yeats - Dreams

“Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations”~Anon - Dreams

“If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy”~Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Dreams

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but believe”~Anatole France - Dreams

“Only the educated are free”~Epictetus - Education

“If it is to be, it is up to me”~Various - Empowerment

“We act as though luxury and comfort were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about”~Charles Kingsley - Enthusiasm

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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with unexpected success”

~Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”~Ralph Waldo Emerson - Enthusiasm

“Enthusiasm is the most convincing orator; it is like the infallible law of nature. The simplest man, fired with enthusiasm, is more persuasive than the most eloquent man without it” ~Franklin Field ~ Enthusiasm

“Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly”~St Francis de Sales - Esteem

“The only person you need to prove anything to is yourself”~David Gethings - Esteem

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live”~Goethe - Esteem

“Use what talent you possess: the woods would very silent if no birds sang except those that sang the best”~Henry van Dyke - Esteem

“He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others”~William Hazlitt - Esteem

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”~Mahatma Ghandi - Esteem

“Now one will see in you that which you do not see in yourself”~Anonymous - Esteem

“If you put a small price on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price”~Anonymous - Esteem

“A good example is the best sermon”~Thomas Fuller - Example “We are not excited because we are succeeding. We are succeeding because we are excited”~Anonymous - Excitement

“Excitement is like electricity - very little works without it”~Anonymous - Excitement

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“The gates of opportunity and advancement swing on these four hinges: initiative, industry, insight and integrity”

~William Ward

“Without experience there can be little wisdom”~Shiela West - Experience

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards”~Vernon Law - Experience

“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step”~Dr. Martin Luther King - Faith

“Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity”~Russel Baker - Fame

“No man is a hero to his valet”~Madame de Cornuel - Familiarity

“There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer”~Ralph Waldo Emerson - Fanaticism

“The harder I practice, the luckier I get” ~Gary Player - Focus

“If you care at all, you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results”~Jim Rohn - Focus

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing”~Anonymous - Focus

“What we see mainly depends on what we look for ”~John Lubbock - Focus

“Make sure you are running to something, not away from something”~Anonymous - Future

“Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment”~Abraham Maslow - Future

“The best way to predict the future, is to create it” ~Jason Kaufmann - Future

“I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish”~Michelangelo - Goals

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“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will”

~George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance“~G. Jampolshy - Goals

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime”~James Russell Lowell - Goals

“One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar”~Helen Keller - Goals

“Every country has the government it deserves”~Joseph Marie de Maistre - Government

“It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness”~Charles Spurgeon - Happiness

“I've learned that happiness is like perfume, you can't give it away without getting a little on yourself”~Anonymous - Happiness

“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently”~Roas Luxemburg - Ideas

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”~Edith Wharton - Ideas

“All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea”~Napoleon Hill - Ideas

“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration“~James Allen - Imagination

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”~Eleanor Roosevelt - Imagination

“A new life is but a new mind” ~James Allen - Imagination

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”~William Shakespeare - Imagination

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“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there”

~Indira Ghandi - Job

“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well”

~Sir William Osler - Job

“You paid according to your skills; not according to bills”~Dr Molapo - Job “Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue”~Roger Anderse - Job

“Motivation is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot”~Jim Rohn - Knowledge

“Doubt grows with knowledge”~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Knowledge

“Leadership is an action, not a position” ~Anonymous - Leadership

“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great”~G.K. Chesterton - Leadership

“Turn scars of the past into stars of the future”~Anonymous - Lessons

“You cannot do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth”~Shira Tehrani - Life

“We regret more the things we didn't do than the things we did do”~Anonymous - Life

“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart”~Mencius - Life

“Don't be so busy making a living that you forget to make a life”~Anonymous - Life

“One hundred percent of the shots you don't take do not go in” ~Wayne Gretzkey - Life

“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all”~Helen Keller - Life

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“Someone should tell us we are busy dying when we are born, because then we would really appreciate life”

~Micheal Landon - on his deathbed

“We have met the enemy and he is us”

~Walt Kelly

“Love is when you stop keeping score”

~Anonymous

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is”~Albert Einstein - Life

“Live your life as an Exclamation and not an Explanation”~Bob Newton - Life

“If you asked me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you I came to live my life out loud”~Emile Zola - Life

“My barn burn't down, but now I can see the moon ”~Zen - Life

“All men die but not every man really lives”~Mel Gibson - Life

“Life is full of cactus but we don't have to sit on it” ~Anonymous - Life

“Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same”~Anonymous - Love

“No three words have greater power than "I Love You"~Anonymous - Love

”Love is a gift, not an obligation, follow your heart and always trust the person you love”~Anonymous - Love

“I have spread my dreams beneath your feet, tread softly because you tread on my dreams” ~W.B. Yeats - Love

“Love is being silly and stupid together”~Anonymous - Love

“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail”~Eric Hoffer - Mistakes

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“We all love to win but how many people love to train”

~Mark Spit

“Fail to prepare, and prepare to fail”

~Anon

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity“

~Elmer Letterman

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything William Connor”~Magee - Mistakes

“Necessity knows no law”~Mark Twain - Necessity

“I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality”~Harold Geneen - Performance

“All things are difficult before they are easy”~John Norley - Perserverance

“The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering”~Moses Ibn Ezra - Persistence

“Any thought put into your mind, and nourished regularly, will produce results in your life”~John Kehoe - Perspective

“Your mind creates your reality. You can choose to accept this or not. But your mind will always and forever be creating your reality.”~John Kehoe - Perspective

“Success is simply a matter of luck, ask any failure“~Anonymous - Planning

”There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve”~Mike Leavitt - Problems

“It is better to read the weather forecast before we pray for rain.”~Mark Twain - Reality

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience”~Goethe - Self

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“A camel is a horse designed by a committee”

~Alec Issigonis

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now”

~Anon

“May you live all the days of your life”

~Jonathan Swift

“You will become whatever you consistently think about yourself”~John Kehoe - Self

“I will act as if what I do makes a difference”~William James- Self

“I don't know the exact key to success but I do know the key to failure is trying to please everybody”~Anonymous - Success

“It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure”~Emilio Trujillo - Success

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try help another without helping himself”~Ralph Waldo Emerson - Teamwork

“My soul has a wordless song for you”~Andrina - Teamwork

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist” ~Indira Ghandi - Teamwork

“As you change your thoughts towards people, people change toward you”~John Kehoe - Teamwork

“Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened!” ~Anon - Unknown

“When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation in tangible and visible form is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes and itself deter-mines the realization”~Lillian Whiting - Vision

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"Choices are the hinges of destiny”

~Pythagoras

“Challenge yourself to greatness”~John Kehoe - Vision

“Before you can make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream” ~Mike Lipkin - Vision

”Winning is easy. It is deciding to become a winner that is hard” ~Flint Pattison - Winning

“Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked” ~Ovid - Women

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