Best Developmental Quotes

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A man in the glass

The real risk lies in riskless living.

Some of life’s best pleasures are its simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy.

Peter Drucker, the management expert, said it so well: “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

Ordinary people don’t spend much time on the extra mile. But whoever said you were ordinary.

Positive reference points will pull you into a new way of seeing things and introduce you to a new set of possibilities. Doors you never even knew existed will begin to open.

It’s easy to forget that people do business with people they like.

Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.

When you get back to doing those things that lifted your spirit and sent you soaring, you reconnect with that state of happiness that you may have lost.

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