"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."

Rohn, Jim on character
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on character
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"It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on character
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"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on character   

"The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity."

Smith, Roy L. on character
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"You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best."

Thomas, John M. on character
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"Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character."

Unknown, Source on character   

"The test of any man's character is how he takes praise."

Unknown, Source on character   

"It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else."

Unknown, Source on character
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"You cannot raise a man up by calling him down."

Boetcker, William on motivation
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"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."

Brown, Les on motivation
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"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

Buscaglia, Leo on motivation
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"Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves."

Cain, Herman on motivation
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"There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it."

Carnegie, Dale on motivation
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"What comes from the heart, goes to the heart."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on motivation
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on motivation
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"If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on motivation
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"You don't have to do anything you don't want to do."

Fink, David Harold on motivation   

"Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on motivation
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"A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life."

Gothard, Bill on motivation   

"Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset."

Herbert, Jack on motivation
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"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

Holtz, Lou on motivation
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"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

Laird, Donald on motivation
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"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."

Landor, Walter Savage on motivation
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"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

Lubbock, Sir John on motivation
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"One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center."

Maltz, Maxwell on motivation   

"I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best."

Olajuwon, Akeem on motivation   

"You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!"

Richards, Bob on motivation
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"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."

Richter, Jean Paul on motivation
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"There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning."

Riley, Pat on motivation
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

Ryun, Jim on motivation
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"We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now."

Sheehan, George on motivation   

"Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power."

Thomas, Paul G. on motivation
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"Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it."

Thackeray, William M. on motivation
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"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on motivation
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"Children smile on the average 400 times/day; Adults: 15 times/day. Ever wonder why?"

Unknown, Source on smile
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"A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home."

Unknown, Source on smile
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"The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end."

Alan, Robert on smile
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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers."

Angelou, Maya on smile
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"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile."

Baudrillard, Jean on smile
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