Nido R Qubein Quotes
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If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
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Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.
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You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.
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The time is now, the person is you.
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Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.
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People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.
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Say exactly what you mean. Enough said.
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To mobilize yourself, decide what you want, determine what will get you what you want, then act - do what will get you what you want most to achieve.
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Training teaches how. Education teaches why.
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You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.
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Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.
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The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
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Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.
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Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.
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The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.
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A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision
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The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.
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To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.
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The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.
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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
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Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.
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Make education a continuing, never-ending process.
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Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.
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Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.
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Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.
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Simmering resentment saps energy.
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For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting.
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Achieving your vision doesn't mean you've reached the end of the line. It simply means that you've come to a new starting place.
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When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
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What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?
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