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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Denis Waitley

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.
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Achievement Excellence Ideas Learning Life Myself Skills
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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Children Gift Greatness Independence Responsibility Yourself
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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Learning Mistake Past Success Yourself
By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place – it is a launching pad.
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Focus Goal Life Place Stay Yourself
Your best friend should bring out the best in you.
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Best Company Friendship Yourself
The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!
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Important Word Yourself
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
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Establishment Failure Forget Live Negative Worth
Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager.
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Choice Management Priority Time
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
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Character Improvement Project Winner Yourself
Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
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Health Lost Precious Recognition Time
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.
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Clear Conscience Relationship Respect Rich Yourself
Don’t let negative people determine your self-worth.
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Determination Negative People Worth
The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
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Attitude Criteria Gift Success Talent Win
Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.
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Drive Image Motivational Reality Travel Yourself
There never was a winner, who wasn’t a beginner.
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Beginning One Liner Winner
Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. … Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.
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Focus Goal Persistence Success Target

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

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