Job Search Quotes of the Week

“Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you have been buried, when if fact you have been planted.” – Christine Caine

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese Proverb

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - Aristotle

“I hadn’t been aware that there were doors closed to me until I started knocking on them.” - Gertrude B. Elion

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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."  – Seneca

"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."  – Albert Schweitzer

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"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." - Jamie Paolinetti

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“Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” - Will Rogers

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick’s others have thrown at him.” - David Brinkley

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"Those who love the process, end up with the results naturally. Those who worship only the results, end up with nothing." - James Clear

“Without caring there can be no quality.” - Joel Barker

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“Ever tried.  Ever failed.  No matter.  Try again.  Fail again.  Fail better.”  – Samuel Beckett

“No man can win ever battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.” – Peter Parker (Spider-man)

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“A door is more than it appears to be.  It separates who you are from who you can be.  You do not have to walk through it, you can run.” – Unknown

“It’s not what you achieve, but what you overcome, that defines your career.” – Carleton Fisk

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“I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing 

I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.  Don’t lose faith.” – Steve Jobs

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“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill

“Accept that you can’t control everything.  The only thing you can control one hundred percent of the time is yourself.” – Joel Osteen

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"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift or easy." - Marie Curie


"Highlight your value, not your duties and responsibilities in any job search or performance review." - Unknown

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"Whatever path you’ve chosen, be it medicine, business, engineering, the humanities, whatever drives your passion, be the last to accept the notion that the world you inherit cannot be improved. Be the last to accept the excuse that says, “That’s just how things are done here.” ... And you should be the first to change it.  – Tim Cook

Your job is not always going to fulfill you. There will be some days that you just might be bored. Other days you may not feel like going to work at all. Go anyway, and remember that your job is not who you are. It’s just what you are doing on the way to who you will become. With every remedial chore, every boss who takes credit for your ideas—that is going to happen—look for the lessons, because the lessons are always there." – Oprah Winfrey

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“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” - Jimmy Dean

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” - Wayne Dyer

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“The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done… you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.” – Lil Wayne

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

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“Time is more value than money, you can get more money, but you can’t get more time.” – Jim Rohn

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy

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"I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest." - Venus Williams

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris

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"Achieving dreams is not an accident the only guarantee that tomorrow will get better is by growing today." - John Maxwell

“You either walk inside your story and own it, or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.” - Brené Brown

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“Be attached to the outcome, not the process.” – Carrie Greene

 “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli

 “If you really want to do something you will find a way.  If you don’t, you will find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn

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"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results." - Denis Waitley 


"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen." - Lee Iacocca

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“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.” 
― Criss Jami



“When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between. ” 
― Rick Jarow

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“Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.” 
― Criss Jami



“Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

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“Don’t worry about failure, you only have to right once.” – Drew Houston

“Little progress is better than no progress at all.  Success comes in taking many small steps, because if you stumble in a small step it rarely matters.  Don’t gift wrap the garbage.  Let the failures go!” – John Maxwell 

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 “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done.  Life’s too short to think small.” – Tim Ferris

 “You drown not by falling in a river, but by staying submerged in it.” – Paulo Coelho 

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“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“Don’t wait, the time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

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“Chase the vision not the money; the money will end up following you.” – Tony Hsieh

“Life isn’t about finding yourself.  It is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

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If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward." – Richard Branson



"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do." - Elbert Hubbard

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"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." – Maya Angelou


"If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place." - Gita Bellin

Career Tip: GIVE THEM TWO WEEKS NOTICE

Many ask me the reason for giving two weeks’ notice, and why it’s important in leaving a job.  This subject often comes up when someone I know or a client feels like they were mistreated and either want to “get back” at the employer by just leaving, or don’t feel it is warranted based on their perceived or true maltreatment in the workplace.  Certainly anyone can justify merely not showing up one day and “sticking it to the man,” but I am here to argue that is not the way to end your employment at any company. 

First, you don’t know what a past employer might say when called for a reference.  Some are told by lawyers not to say anything but dates of employment for any past employee, however they can say anything they like – there is no law against it.  Leaving in the best way, by giving that two weeks’ notice may be just the thing that gets you a great reference, or at least keeps them from saying anything negative about you. 

Second, you know that you did the right thing and that is important.  Young people are especially bad about quitting jobs on a whim, but later in life they regret that decision as they mature in workplace ethics and career management.  We regret enough of what we have done and not done in our life, so let’s not add to the list by just quitting without notification. 

Three, and maybe most importantly, many companies will allow you to return to their organization years later, with all of your tenure, vacation time, etc., if you just give two weeks’ notice and then actually show up and work through that two weeks.  You leave in what they call “good stead” which means for all intents and purposes you have done the mature thing.  You may say, I would never go back, but don’t be so sure, 10 years down the road and things could be very different at that organization and in your life. 

Make a good decision when leaving an organization.  Whether they let you stay the two weeks or tell you to clean out your desk leave immediately, you have used proper career management etiquette and just may get a positive review from doing so or another job when you need one down the road. To your career success!

Job Search Quotes of the Week

"You can have most anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it." - Dr. Robert Anthony

"Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful.  And Believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you." - Misty Copeland

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"Don't confuse your path with your destination.  Just because it is stormy now doesn't mean you aren't headed for sunshine." - Unknown


"Most of the problems in our personal and professional lives are due to two reasons.  We act without thinking or think without acting." - Unknown

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Highlight your value to an employer, not just duties and responsibilities.  If an employer can't see value, they can't see YOU in their organization. - Unknown 



"The future depends on what you do today." - Mahatma Gandhi

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You don’t need to win every medal to be successful.
- Jason Fried

You can't change the people around you; but you can change the people who are around you! - Unknown

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“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Rut

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – General George Patton

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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just stay in one place." - Unknown


"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." - Henry David Thoreau 

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 “It’s better to move forward at a snail’s pace, than backward at any pace.”  - Rhonda Begos



“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out.” - Art Linkletter

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“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.”-  Lee Iacocca


“We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.” - Henry Cloud

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"I think everyone should experience defeat in their career, you learn a lot from it." - Lou Holtz

"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career (and job search). - Orison Swett Marden

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"If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs." - Tony Gaskins

"Talent is only the starting point." - Irving Berlin

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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald



"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin

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"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time. What we really want is for things to remain the same but get better." - Sydney J. Harris


"People don't resist change. They resist being changed!" - Peter Senge

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"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind if favorable." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca



"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." - Napoleon Hill

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"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your positions gets show down, your ego doesn't go with it." - Colin Powell


"Do more than is required.  What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and career merely following?  The extra mile" - Gary Ryan Blair

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"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart


"You are not stuck where you are, unless you decide to be." - Wayne Dyer

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"Desire!  That's the one secret of every man's career.  Not education.  Not being born with hidden talents.  Desire!" - Johnny Carson 

"I can not do everything, but I can do something.  I must not fail to do something that I can do." - Helen Keller

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"If Plan "A" didn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters." - Unknown


“Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?” – Tony Robbins 

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“Work smart in silence, let success make the noise.” - Unknown

“Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it.  Autograph your work with excellence.” - Unknown

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“Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they never quit.” — J.W. Marriot


“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want something.”— Randy Pausch

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"No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius." - Anna Pavlova

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music, or pictures, or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." - Samuel Butler

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"You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Old ways will not open new doors." - Unknown

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"A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks." - Steve Guttenberg

"There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too." - Clayton M. Christensen

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"Don't pick a job with great vacation benefits, pick a job that doesn't need escaping from." - Unknown

"Backwards steps are sometimes required to give you proper runway to fly." - Unknown

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"Communication, the human connection, that is the key to personal and career success."  - Paul J. Meyer

"Don't ever let economics alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time." - Denis Waitley

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“Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.” 
― Darrell Gurney



“When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.” 
― Richie Norton

Career Management Quotes of the Week

“Regardless of profession or title, at some level we are all hired to do the same job. We are all problem solvers, paid to anticipate, identify, prevent, and solve problems within our areas of expertise. This applies to any job, at any level, in any organization, anywhere in the world, and being aware of this is absolutely vital to job search and career success in any field.” 
― Martin Yate


“Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.” 
― Miles Anthony Smith

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“When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.” 
― Whitney Johnson



“Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.” 
― Miles Anthony Smith

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“Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.” 
― Idowu Koyenikan



“Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.” 
― Abhishek Ratna

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"Small efforts can add up to giant results." - Tony Robbins

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." - Napoleon Hill

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 “Indecision is the seedling of fear." - Napoleon Hill 

“As you ascend, make sure that you bring other people along up with you.”  Sterling K. Brown

Career Tip: References and Your Job Search

Obtain your references just ahead of starting a job search or right at the beginning of a “forced” job search.  Your first three to four references should always be professional, as what companies really want to know is how well you perform in the workplace.  For instance:  what were you best at in your prior work, are you dependable, do you have the skills required by the potential employer, do you complete projects on time, do you manage your time well, are you a self-starter?, etc.  Personal references should also be someone who can talk about your work ethic, how you get along with others, and dependability.  They should not be your drinking buddy, the person you haven’t seen in 10 years, or an individual who can’t answer the “biggest weakness” question without torpedoing your candidacy.  Never use an individual as a reference you haven’t spoken with personally; no one wants a surprise call suddenly asking for a reference about you.  Quality references significantly improve your chances of being hired, so select them wisely.  To your job search success!

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“Come right out and say you want it: “It’s been great hearing you talk about the position. I’d love to work here, and I think I could do a terrific job for you.” 
― Kate White


“Just because you can’t find them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You’ve got to change the way you’re looking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there.” 
― Richard N. Bolles

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“Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you.” 
― Gabrielle Union


“Action is the spark that ignites potential.” 
― John Long

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“The resume focuses on you and the past. The cover letter focuses on the employer and the future. Tell the hiring professional what you can do to benefit the organization in the future.” 
― Joyce Lain Kennedy


“If you don’t know why you’d hire you, neither will they.” 
― Frank Sonnenberg

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"You can never leave footprints that last if you're always walking on tiptoes." - Leymah Gbowee


"Don't give up on a dream because it will take you some time, you are going to use that time anyway, may as well be towards your dream." - Unknown

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"It isn't stress that makes us fall, it is how we respond to stressful events." - Wayne Goodall

"Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place." - Hal Lancaster

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"Remember that failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar


"Experience is not what happens to you--it's how you interpret what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley

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"Bravery is the engine of change." – Aisha Tyler

“Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?” - Bruce Van Horn

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"Don't sit on the couch and wait for it.  Go out.  Make a change.  Smile more.  Be excited.  Do new things.  Throw away what you have been cluttering.  Unfollow negative people on social media.  Go to bed early.  Wake up early.  Be fierce.  Don't gossip.  Show more gratitude.  Do things that challenge you.  Be brave!" - Unknown


"Success is having the courage, determination and will to become the person you believe you were meant to be." - Unknown 

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"I didn't succeed without hearing no. I succeeded because I heard no's." - Fenton & Waltz

"We live in a networked world where relationships and reputations matter, particularly when it comes to career management or a job search." - Hannah Morgan

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. To play small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson

"The World Will Not Remember What You Say, But It Will Certainly Not Forget What You've Done." - Jack Ma

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"We forget that 'old' in age typically does not mean 'old' in terms of relevance." - Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca

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“Don’t go through life, grow through life.” ~ Eric Butterworth

"Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come."

- Og Mandino ​​​​​​​

Career Tip: Quick Resume Advice

Never lie on your resume.  While you may be desperate to get a specific job, or even any job, a lie can truly come back to haunt you.  First, your experience is good enough if applying for the right jobs.  Second, a lie, even discovered years down the road, can result in immediate dismissal (think of the Yahoo CEO who lied about having a degree on his resume and was ousted from his position within days).  It will never pay to lie, whether discovered immediately in an interview or checking references, or years from now, the damage is done.

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“You don’t have to be amazing. Be yourself and you will be amazing.” ~ Wendy Turner-Larsen

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. – Napoleon Hill

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“Optimism is a happiness magnet.” ~ Ulrika Nilsson

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that really counts.” ~Dana Eric Terrell

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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

“Sometimes, a deadline is a lifeline.” ~  Beth Duerr Munro

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“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Frustration is trying to control something over which you have no control.” ~ Crystal Christmas

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“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” - Benjamin Disraeli

“100% of the shots you don’t take, don't go in.” ~ Wayne Gretsky

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"Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first." - Bob Burg

“A dream is just mental stimulation until you take appropriate actions to accomplish it.” ~ George Herbert

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“‘No’ is one of the most powerful words you can use to control your schedule and calendar.” ~ Arla De Field

“You cannot change how your past played out, but from here on the journey is your choice.” ~ Judy Clark

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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” ~ Marianne Williamson

“You don’t have to be strong, just be. Strong is your natural state of being.” ~ Hedy MacDonald

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“In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

 ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is no better investment in your future then harnessing the power of your words to change someone else's.”  ~ Elizabeth Schirmer Shores

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“Finding fault with others is the pastime of the ignorant. For the man of understanding looks to praise and uplift.” ~ Anonymous

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.” ~ Henry Ford

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“You don’t have to be strong, just be. Strong is your natural state of being.” ~ Hedy MacDonald

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” ~ Marianne Williamson