You cannot make all people like you, but you can rob them of a sound reason for disliking you. Napoleon Hill

Even the most popular people have their detractors. Because we are all different, with differing interests and personalities, it is simply impossible for anyone to be beloved by every individual who knows him or her. If your mission in life is to make everyone like you, great disappointment is in store. But if you are always kind and considerate in your dealings with others, they may not like you, but it will be impossible for them to dislike you. You can cement your relationships with others by making sure that you are a person of character, one who is predictably honest, straightforward, and ethical. When you follow such a code of conduct, you may not be sought out by others who do not share your value, but you will be respected by all who know you. And in the end, self-respect will mean far more to you than mere popularity. NHF

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end. -- William Howard Taft

Man is not made for defeat. Ernest Hemingway

There is a huge difference between wanting to change and being willing to change.
Almost everyone wants to change for the better.
Very few are willing to take the steps necessary to create that change.
- John T. Child -

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration - to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left. -- William Matthews


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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. -Christina Rossetti, poet (1830-1894)

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

Action and Effect
The Consequences You Sow
by Madisyn Taylor

The principle of cause and effect is the truth that allows us to better ourselves and the world around us..... See below for the whole article, POM:

http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2014/46080.html

One of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others. -- Frank Tyger

My life has always been a miracle.

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