When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.

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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

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Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

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You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin — Gordon B. Hinckley

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

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There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there. — John P. Kotter

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