Maintaining success

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Zig Ziglar

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Get it over with

Delay always breeds danger.

Miguel de Cervantes

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You can only get what you want

Nothing, not even sheer ability, can make up for the dedication required for a successful business career.

Ray Eppert

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You do not need motivation!

What? I do not need motivation? Well, what the hell am I doing here, then?

Well, it is about this quote:

You don’t need motivation, you need discipline.

It is a great quote because it reveals one of the biggest problems with the whole motivation and self-development topic: A lot of people start reading books and blogs, listening to podcasts and audiobooks because they hope that one day the magic moment comes. That moment in which you just start to WANT to do all the exhausting and boring tasks.

But guess what? That won’t happen!
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Be adventurous

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.

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Improvement

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Leadership

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Ralph Lauren

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Find your passion

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Napoleon Hill

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Learning your lesson

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Herbert Gesser

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Coping with difficult times

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

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