Original from Zig Ziglar https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zig_Ziglar
Misattributed
“Why settle for what is provided instead of being motivated to achieve what you want. Complacency is your contentment.”
1987
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As quoted in Secrets of Superstar Speakers: Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time (2000) by Lilly Walters, p. 96
Variant: What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Attributed to Zig Ziglar
Misattributed
“Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships.”
Shampoo Planet (1992)
Original: (it) Quello che vuoi si ottiene decidendo che puoi ottenerlo: dove concentri la tua attenzione, fluisce l'attrazione.
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“What on earth do you want? The question is settled. There are no more Armenians.”
After the German Ambassador persistently brought up the Armenian question in 1918. Quoted in The History of the Armenian Genocide (2003) by Vahakn N. Dadrian, p. 211