Top 43 Nido R. Qubein Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment
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#4. If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
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#5. The process of growing and learning always involves risk.
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#6. Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.
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#7. Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.
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#8. Motivation without mobilization means only frustration.
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#9. Jim Rohn is a legend. Millions of people around the world have benefited immensely from his teachings.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Make education a continuing, never-ending process.
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#14. Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft
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#15. You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.
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#16. 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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#17. Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.
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#18. If you believe you can, and believe it strongly enough, you'll be amazed at what you can do.
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#20. When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.
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#21. 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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#22. Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.
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#23. When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.
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#24. It's not enough to create value, you have to interpret the value for your prospects and customers so that they can feel the value emotionally and empirically.
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#25. The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.
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#26. 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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#27. The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.
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#28. You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.
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#29. Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.
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#30. Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.
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#31. Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.
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#32. 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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#33. Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.
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#34. People who invariably put themselves first will find that others tend to put them last.
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#35. 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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#36. Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
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#37. When you find yourself on a plateau, look for another level.
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#38. Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.
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#39. If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done.
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#40. Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.
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#42. Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.
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#43. Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.
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