125+ Famous Quotes I Live By

[Because I cannot trace every one of these to a specific author, I will not be quoting these with their author.  My only intention is to share these quotes that helped shape my life.]

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You are going to be your own BEST friend or worse enemy. Accept total accountability for your life. 

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Discipline is the highest form of self-love.  When you run on cheap dopamine doing useless, unimportant things, irrelevant things, childish hobbies and vanity, you betray your future self. 

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If you want to love and fully enjoy the life God has given you, don’t sabotage yourself.  Empower yourself.

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Live your life and reframe your life on the path to achieving your goals. Goal that have deadlines.  Goals that have dates and time to be completed.  Achieve your goals. That’s the fun!  

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The joy of achieving a goal is the mountain your climbed, how you did it, those your helped and helped you along the way. 

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Think of what you do every day as EXPERIMENTS you get to run as you seek the answers you need.  That will give you real data in real time. That’s what you need. Test everything before you do it. Fire test bullets first. If they penetrate then fire a cannonball.  People fail because they fire the cannonball first. 

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Understand your power and use it to fulfill your purpose.

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Always be humble and kind.  

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If you don't like it, learn to love it.

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If it is not broken, don't fix it.  If it is not broken, break it. - Master that.

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You don’t have to save the world!! Just do “something”.

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Failure doesn’t matter. But the reason for the failure does. 

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Leadership comes from maintaining integrity.

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Let tragedy move you FORWARD. 

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Leaders are active while others are sleeping.

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Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. And all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as you ever can, do good.

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Block out the noise and focus on what matters.

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Every once in a short while, you need to take a measure of the results in your life from your life plan, your philosophy, the rules that govern and move you, your attitude, your activity. Then see how you’re doing.  If your results are horrible, it’s because your plan is horrible. U need a new plan.

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A few errors in judgement repeated everyday, multiplied by a number of years = Accumulated Disaster. 

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If you have read zero books, studied no courses, learned nothing new, and never made an effort to a plan to better yourself or position yourself… you have messed up.

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If you want to be successful you need to look back at the dots you have been connecting. It can be tracked.  

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Luck is when opportunity meets preparation. You can increase the surface area of your luck if you are aware of what immediately surrounds you. 

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Make your story unique and don’t ever quit. - The 2 most common qualities of successful people.

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The strength of your organization is not a reflection of your control.  It is a reflection of who you empower.

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Everyone who is seriously interested in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, a spirit vastly superior to men, and one in the face of which our modest powers must seem humble. - Albert Einstein

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Sometimes God saves us from the fire. Sometimes he is in the fire with us. Sometimes he chooses not to deliver us.  It is then that we should be proud to die for the faith and “not conform” to the world.

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The best dreams are the ones you can live in. If you design the space where the story will happen, you can control them both. The dream and the story. You can create rooms of beautiful things where only good things occur.

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We realize the value of our life when death is close.

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We act with greater clarity and urgency when there’s no escape.

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Pick your battles carefully – sometimes victory costs more than defeat.

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The more you desire a certain prize, the harder you need to think about what getting it will take. Some costs will be obvious; others will be less tangible. Consider too, that you might be better off waiting – it may be easier to fight your war later, when you have more resources. 

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History’s record is littered with the corpses of ambitious generals who ignored the costs of war. Sometimes you should save yourself unnecessary battles and live to fight another day.

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The greatest things that happened in life, that we can see and touch, were born in the mind and heart of a dreamer.

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When you stand in front of a skyscraper, you know at first it was the dream of a visionary who developed it.

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Not all dreamers are dream makers.

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The men and woman who have changed our world have been both dreamers and dream makers, because they knew how to turn their dreams into "achievable goals."

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The first step in converting dreams into reality is establishing clear and attainable goals that can be measured with a specific "date" of completion. When we begin that action, we begin to pay the price for our dream.

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We may be born with specific gift, talents and desires, but we need to develop these before we can help them make our dreams into reality.

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Develop your talents quickly so you can waist less time in life.

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Everything is possible to those who believe and "act".

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People hate dream makers so understand that and expect rejection and be ready to jump over it.

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Passion is the combustion that pushes us to reach our objectives.

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Form a team and surround yourself with like-minded people who are dream-makers too.

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Combine passion with planning.  Consider the steps and write down the plan.

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A goal without a plan is only a wish.

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Prepare to pay the price.  Initiate the work, solve the problems and overcome the obstacles.

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Failure happens when you stay down and don’t get up.

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We can’t spend time with the eagles if we are hanging around turkeys.

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Don’t be persuaded by negative people.

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Don’t hang around people who have tiny visions.

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The only limits to your visions are the ones you place on them.

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Don’t just seek education and record your accomplishments. Be a visionary who knows how to get the things you want by leading people to your goals.

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Dream makers are leaders who listen and understand the message being delivered.   

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Recognize your choices make the difference between poverty and prosperity.

Be careful with people with pessimistic natures.  They will prevent you from doing anything and kill your dreams.

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Nobody achieves a crown without a cross.

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You are not a failure when u fail.  You are a failure when your failure defines you.

Battles that are won start in the mind.

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When your attention is on your goals, you will find it much easier to pass through the darkness.

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Pray. Plan. Go.

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Rest 1 day.  Not 6.

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God made Africa.  God made the gazelle.  God made the lion.  Each morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up.  She knows she must run faster than the lion or she will be killed.  Each morning a lion wakes up and knows he must run faster than a gazelle or he will die of hunger.  Every morning you wake up, you need to get running if you want to reach your goals.

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Peter, when fishing had action but no production when he told Jesus he had been fishing all night.  Jesus gave a direct command and Peter obeyed. The result was a massive production.

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Eleazar, one of Davids 3 valiant men, killed 800 men in one day so that his sword was stuck to his hand.  Whatever you are doing, finish it.

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Carlos Varges, Founder of Hope of Life, joined a board of Humanitarian people, but when he found out their vision was so small, he immediately quit.  He said he didn’t have time for people who were not the movers and shakers of this world.

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Carlos talks about a good story of a lady who asked him to come to a meeting and consider joining her team as on the board of the directors.  Carlos mentioned that after the meeting he took her aside and told her that if she fired nine of the ten people, he would join her.  She dissolved the company and came back to him with the one person he considered a winner.  He then helped her do in 14 days what her team could not do over 5 years.  They built an orphanage.

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Carlos mentions a time he was on a plane, and they guy next to him was so negative at one point he said, “Why did I take this flight?  It’s so long.  I feel like I’m going to die.”  Eventually Carlos moved up a few rows because the guy was so negative.  At the end of the flight the pilot asked everyone to stay seated because one of the passengers had died.  Be careful what you think.   If you have no goals, you just may become your negative thoughts.

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One-time Hope of Life was talking about starting a project.  They asked how soon it could be started.  They bowed their heads and during prayer Carlos nodded to his assistant.  He started mixing cement.  By the time pray ended they laid 5 blocks.  2 weeks later the building was dedicated.

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A good leader can tell you his story about a topic and his method how he or she obtained actual success that can be measured.  

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Pick your leaders very carefully.  

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Leaders should only lead and teach what they excel at.

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Surround yourself with winners.  

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An army of 99 sheep “led by a lion” wins.  But 99 lions “led by a sheep” do not.

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A team is defined by the leader.

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A leader should be strong, courageous and capable. If he is, his team will be like him.

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A winner molds, produces, prepares and inspires.

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Take advantage of those closest to you.

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Action is the solution to reach your goals.

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Production is the action needed to reach your goals.

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Our leadership needs to be one of action and production.

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Good leaders produce good results.

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Think in long terms while acting in short term.

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He who leads ten men is better than he who does the work of ten men.

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Dedicate yourself to forming leaders.

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Teach your team to fly independently.

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Don’t be a leader by nomination.  This leader just gives orders and fires 

people who don’t obey.

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Don’t be a leader just by conviction.  Where people just follow you because they like you.

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Be a leader of passion.  Be enthusiastic and passionate about al projects, goals, and dreams.

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Imitate God ‘s leadership and stay busy! More action less explanation.

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Develop leaders that fly over mountains, as opposed to turtle leaders who drag themselves along the ground.

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Habits are powerful and lead to big changes.

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Habits lead to results.

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Stack habits on top of other habits.  

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Build on a pre-existing habits you enjoy.

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Focus on the small habits. Small habits change your trajectory.

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Tweak your environment to make habits come true.

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Alter your environment to make better habits.

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In the brains reward system, desiring something can be the same as getting 

something. This is your fuel.

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Make your habits easy and pleasurable. Then let them get more complicated. This is the best way to make a good habit. 

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Easy habits dominate us. Be careful.

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Reduce friction to develop a good habit. Increase friction to kill a bad habit.

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Getting started is the most important step on doing something new.

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Habits need to be satisfying to become consistent.

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Don’t focus on immediate returns. 

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Practice habit tracking. It is satisfying.

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Sticking to your small habits help you achieve BIG THINGS in life.

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It takes man seven years to figure out what God is doing, and then they turn it into a business, and God moves on. God is looking for people who care more about his sheep than a parade. 

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In our day, Heaven & Earth are on tip toe waiting for a Spirit-led, Spirit-intoxicated, Spirit-empowered people.

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All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this life, the LIFE and POWER of the Kingdom of God.

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Being guided by Christ is a Spiritual Journey that is inward but revealed outward.

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Don’t ask for blessings from God. Do the things that God blesses.

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Do you want to find out who you truly are? Give your life to Christ and you’ll find out the purpose of why the creator made you.

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Confession must be followed by commitment.

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When Christ calls a man, he calls him to die.

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Your attendance in church is not proof of your salvation. His residence is!!

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The church is not about people. It is a people who gather together about Jesus.

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The Bible is about JESUS, not the Bible. Jesus said, “They wrote of ME”. 

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If you don’t read the Scriptures to learn about Jesus, then you’re just better equipping yourself to debate people. 

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The moment you forget about you, you enter into true worship.

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The Christian life is Christ.

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When your clothed in Christ, you lose your right to think the way that you want. 

Being clothed in Christ is MEASURABLE to yourself and everyone that comes in your presence.

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If the Father had one sermon, it would be this. “Listen to my Son”. Why?  Because he is a good Father.

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I know what you believe but people matter more!

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Process your own doubt so you can develop your own faith.

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When I stand up to preach, people hear my voice, but when I stand up and read from the word of God, they hear a voice from heaven.

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Satan’s only fastball is “Please yourself.” 

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When you ask for WISDOM God gives you PROBLEMS to solve. When you ask for STRENGTH he gives you DIFFICULTIES to make u stronger. When you ask for COURAGE he gives you DANGER to overcome. When u ask for LOVE he gives you TROUBLED PEOPLE to help.

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We don’t need to hear Gods voice about something if he already talked about it in the Bible.

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There is no need to ask God to help someone if he has equipped you to help them.

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The written word of God is sufficient for us to understand Gods heart and where his passion lies.

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God doesn’t give us HOPE, He offers us HOPE.  He then gives us FREEDOM to make choices which can result in HOPE.  

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A successful life begins with recognizing God and his blessings.  The ten lepers, 9 of them, started their life on the wrong path when they decided to not follow Jesus.

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There is no glory in poverty and no evil in wealth.  It is only what you do with it and how you honor God with the choices you have.

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Ask God for the gift of discernment to recognize the tares, before the seed germinates in the midst of wheat.

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Avoid tares growing with the wheat.

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Jesus said we are more than conquerors.  Follow that promise and live under His leadership.

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The church will never truly be the church unless we do something for the poor and the needy.

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Live life with passion and enjoy the best quality of life.

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Often, we wonder if we help someone what will happen to us.  We should think about what would happen to them instead.