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When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

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Andy Andrews
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: May 22
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Motivational Speaker
Orange Beach
Alabama
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Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.
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Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.
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It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present
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Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.
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Then the old man's face hardened. What about you young man? he asked flatly. Would you like to get what you deserve? Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.
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For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women. God used dreams to prepare Joseph for his future as a leader of nations. He gave battle plans to Gideon in a dream. Joan of Arc, Jacob, George Washington, Marie Curie, and the apostle Paul were all guided by their dreams.
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Whatever you focus upon, increases.
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The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.
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Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.
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I understand that what I am to do is to be a bridge between the people who would never set foot in a church in their entire lives and people who would like to get them there. So I write books that Christians can give to their non-Christian friends that they will actually read.
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Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn.
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Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?
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I had always been able to make people laugh in school, so I really developed that and worked on it and I got pretty good at it and it turned into a career.
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I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby or this three hours of sitting under the pier and reading comic books or worrying about what you're doing ... what value do you have? Can you read? There are people out there who can't read - go read to them.
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But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!
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When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.
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After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.
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I'm not saying find someone and ask them if you can mow their grass for ten dollars. I'm saying find weeds that need pulling and pull them.
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Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.
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When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.
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