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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Denis Waitley

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
The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.
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Stop Time Trouble Try
Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.
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Choice Flower Point Stop
Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called ‘Someday I’ll.’
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Dreams Fantasy Live People
Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.
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Customer Path Pay Service
Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.
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Eyes Mindset Mirror Person Respect Yourself
Real power comes by empowering others.
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Empowerment Power Reality
Procrastination is the fear of success.
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Fear One Liner Procrastination Success
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
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Change Direction Failure Forget Success Temporary
Don’t ‘take care’, take a risk!
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Care Choice Inspirational One Liner Risk
You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.
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Emotion Feeling Project Yourself
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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Learning Mistake Past Success Yourself
You can only do good if you feel good.
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Feeling Goodness Yourself
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
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Experience Learning Mistake Oneself Performance Rejection Ridicule
Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.
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Harm Limitation Pieces Success Suffering Yourself
Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.
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Benefit Person Silence Talk

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