Tuesday, November 09, 2010

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

"""It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation."" —Jim Rohn
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“A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.” —Brian Tracy

“Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.” —Tom Hopkins

“Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.” —Harvey Mackay

“Nothing needs reforming so much as other people’s habits.” —Mark Twain

“The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.” —Brian Tracy

“The secret to momentum in life can be found in the word ‘momentum.’ You create it moment by moment.” —Doug Firebaugh

“The truth is you don’t break a bad habit, you replace it with a good one.” —Denis Waitley

“When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges
that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.” —W. Clement Stone

Blessed are they who attend strictly to their own business.- Zig Ziglar

So live that when people get to know you, they will want to know Christ. - Zig Ziglar
The beauty of life is that everything has beauty. Mistakes leave us with lessons.

Fears teach courage. We appreciate the good when we've been through the bad. We grow as we struggle.

We cannot all be apostles; but we can all be living epistles.- Zig Ziglar

Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.- Zig Ziglar

You cannot become a saint by comparing yourself with a sinner.- Zig Ziglar

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. (Source Unknown)

"Get in, get into the place that's your nature, whether it's running a corporation or picking daisies in a field. Get in there and live to it, live to the fullness of it. Become what you are and I'll say to you: You've done more than most men. Most men don't ever do that. They'll work at a job and not
know why. They'll marry a woman and not know why. They'll go to their graves and not know why. (E.L.Doctorow)"

Talent never asks: Will they like it?" Talent pleases itself. That's the difference between talent and ordinary." (Larry King)

There are four different kinds of bones in an organisation: wish-bones, who wish someone else would do it; jaw-bones, who talk a lot but do very little; knuckle-bones, who knock what everyone else does; and backbones, who do the work. (William Wilkerson)

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. (Henry Kaiser 1882 - 1967)

Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. (John Whitmore)

If you commit yourself to performing one 10-minute act of exceptional customer courtesy per day and induce your colleagues in a 100-person company to do likewise, that means 24,000 new courteous acts a year. Such is the stuff of revolutions! (Tom Peters)

Most people are not really conceited, but feel a certain amount of inferiority and tend to get a little discouraged with themselves, therefore encouragement is a very important thing! I do it all the time! I praise everybody for everything they do that I see is good. (David Brandt Berg)

No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings. (Source Unknown)

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful, just as one is more angry for being told one is angry. (Katherine F. Gerould)

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. (Saskya Pandita 1182 - 1251)

I’m not a great motivator. I just get rid of guys who can’t motivate themselves. (Lou Holtz)

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. (Goethe)

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. (John Wooden)

Don’t wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up under it. (Frank C. Bucaro)

It’s a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. (Elbert Hubbard)

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top-ups. (Peter Davies)

The majority of men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, terribly objective sometimes, but the real task is in fact to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others. (Soren Kierkegaard 1813 - 55)

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. (Henry Longfellow 1819 - 92)

Don't pretend to be what you don't intend to be. - C. Pentz

Etiquette is a little better than what is absolutely necessary. - C. Pentz
Let your testimony be written in large enough letters that the world can always read it. - C. Pentz

Make sure that what you're living for is truly worth dying for. - C. Pentz

One proof of your love for God is your love for your neighbor. - C. Pentz

Evaluation of performance, merit rating or annual review nourishes short-term performance, annihilates long-term planning, builds fear, demolishes teamwork, nourishes rivalry and politics. It leaves people bitter, crushed, bruised, battered, desolate, despondent, dejected, feeling inferior, some even depressed, unable to comprehend why they are inferior. (W.Edwards Deming 1900 - 93)

Everyone needs to know what is expected of them. Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. (Merry Browne)

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning. (Peter Senge)

The golfer who doesn’t count his shots is only there for the walk. (Source Unknown)