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Commitment doesn’t guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you’ll fall far short of your potential.

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Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.
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Effort Forever Perseverance Yourself
Don’t wait for mentors to seek you out. Don’t ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.
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Call Mentor Phone Question Respond Yourself
The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
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Criticism Jealous Price Success
Doubters don’t win, winners don’t doubt.
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Doubt Inspirational Mindset One Liner Win
The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.
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Achievement Greatness Performance Yourself
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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Avoid Delay Failure Nothing Teacher Temporary
Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
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Belief Ignition Launch Yourself
The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.
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Inspirational Person Possible Success True
Commitment doesn’t guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you’ll fall far short of your potential.
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Commitment Fall Potential Short Success Yourself
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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Learning Mistake Past Success Yourself
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
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Avoid Cost Life Nothing Risk Yourself
Don’t ‘take care’, take a risk!
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Care Choice Inspirational One Liner Risk
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
Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times
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Day Easy Energy Project Recognition Time
Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.
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Benefit Person Silence Talk
You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.
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Age Life Play Position Scripture Writing Yourself

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