“You can often outperform what other people think of you, but you will never outperform what you think of yourself.”
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Jim Stovall
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”
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Jim Stovall
“Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.”
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Jim Stovall
“Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more such medicine.”
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Jim Stovall
“experience, and most of those experiences are painful and costly. If you can learn from someone else’s pain and expense, you are a wise person, indeed. I would encourage you to read this book, cover-to-cover, but also keep it as a reference text using the sections and individual columns as a resource you can revisit as your life journey calls for specific wisdom. It is my hope that this is not a one-time encounter that you and I are having. My hope is, in the coming months and years as you travel toward your own personal”
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Jim Stovall
“Our memories are not totally fact or completely fiction. They are a conglomeration of the thoughts that we put together to explain to ourselves who we are. Just like a beautiful flower garden will look totally different in daylight as opposed to dark, the memories of our past are held hostage by our perspective.”
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Jim Stovall
“and better, makes us all proud. But let us never forget that, when you’ve lost everything that you own, but you still have your friends and family around you and the desire to go on, you still have everything.”
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Jim Stovall
“We, here in Western civilization, have failed to master the concept of living in the moment. We spend so much time worrying about yesterday or planning tomorrow that we fail to live today.”
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Jim Stovall
“it is more important how you change the lives of those whom you touch every day than whether or not you change the world.”
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Jim Stovall
“the desire and hunger for education is the key to real learning.”
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Jim Stovall
“Our family is involved in our life’s journey long before we are born and long after we die. Some of our family is connected by blood and others only by love.”
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Jim Stovall
“Pursue your dreams as if you will live forever, and consider your legacy as if this will be your final day.”
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Jim Stovall
“Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.”
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Jim Stovall
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if no one is watching.”
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Jim Stovall
“Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away.”
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Jim Stovall
