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“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
This quote comes from Zig Ziglar. A similar version of it (You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.) comes from Les Brown. There’s the obvious irony in this quote of already wanting to be great at something before beginning…
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5 Ways A Low Self-Esteem Could Be Affecting Your Relationships
With the word “self” in self-esteem, we naturally think of it as something that wholly has to do with self. However, we can’t ignore the role others play. Our relationships can have an impact on our self-esteem. Meanwhile, our self-esteem can have an impact on our relationships. Here, we focus…
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“The comeback is always stronger than the setback.”
It’s a lot easier to fall down than it is to get back up. No doubt, it takes a lot more energy and physical demand on the body to “come back” up after falling down. This is a great literal illustration of the comeback always being stronger than the setback.…
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“Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still.”
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes―understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”
“Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally. It comes from what you do consistently.”
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“Don’t be upset when people reject you. Nice things are rejected all the time by people who can’t afford them.”
Rejection can be hard to bear, and harder for some than others. It also has the unfortunate side effect of eroding one’s self-esteem. Again, more so for some than others. The irony in how upsetting rejection is for someone is that it’s more upsetting if they already suffer from low…
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“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life.”
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.”
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“Be yourself. No one can ever tell you that you’re doing it wrong.”
Being your authentic self is never easy. The harsh reality is that people and their opinions are inescapable; and it’s hard not to be, in some way or another, influenced by them. If you’re wondering if this could be you, here’s one simple way to find out. First, tap into…
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“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.”
“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
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“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
In competitions, we tend to dismiss anything and anyone that’s not first place. Yes, silver and bronze get some attention, but certainly not as much as gold. And certainly not as much as fourth place to last. Unfortunately, the same attitude we have toward competitions is unconsciously carried over to…
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“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”
“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.”
“When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.”
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“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”
Perceiving aspects of someone else’s life as better than our own often leads us to imitate them in certain ways. We may adopt the same things they enjoy doing, their taste in music, movies, etc. But doing all those things doesn’t make us or our life any better. In fact,…
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“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
This quote comes from Mae Jemison. As a history-making astronaut, she had to overcome limiting beliefs about her goals and aspirations. If she had believed others’ limited imagination, she wouldn’t have even tried to do some of the things she’s been able to accomplish. This quote reminds us to not…
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
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Living Life Poetically: The Beauty of Self
The ability to be yourself is one of the most important and underrated things you can do in life. It helps to keep in mind that there’s only one of you. So going through your whole life as someone else would be such a waste of who you are. But…
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“Always refuse to be like the others. The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others.”
The struggle to fit in is part of human nature. Who doesn’t want to feel like they belong? However fitting in is more glamorized in our minds than it should be. This quote, by playwright and novelist Mehmet Murat Ildan, reminds us that being like everybody else actually renders us…
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“Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.”
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
“For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them.”
