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Denis Waitley

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
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
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Best Level Worth Yourself
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
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Children Decision Desire Listening 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
Real success comes in small portions day by day.
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Day Portion Reality Small Success
Real power comes by empowering others.
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Empowerment Power Reality
One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor.
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Floor Oneself Person
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
We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
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Forgiveness Ourselves Self Love
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
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Best Energy Focus Goal Live Ourselves Power Provision Way
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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Desire Energy Need Spring Willing Win
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
You can only do good if you feel good.
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Feeling Goodness Yourself
Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called ‘Someday I’ll.’
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Dreams Fantasy Live People
The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.
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Greatness Limitation Place Yourself
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
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
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Creation Goodness Live Material Time Truth Yourself
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
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Acceptance Change Growth Imperfection Person Right
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
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Knowledge Life Potential Price Value Yourself
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
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Future Learning Live Lose Past Present Work
Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.
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Opportunity Yourself
You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.
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Emotion Feeling Project Yourself
Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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Comparison Goal Measurement
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
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
The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!
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Important Word Yourself
What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them.
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Character Children Important Leaving Value Yourself

Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

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