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Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

Denis Waitley

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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Acceptance Change Choice Primary Responsibility
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
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
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 power comes by empowering others.
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Empowerment Power Reality
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
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
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Block Determination 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
Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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Comparison Goal Measurement
The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.
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Learning Primary Success Yourself
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
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
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
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Believe Inspirational Yourself
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
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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Care Light Person Share Smile Window
Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.
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Choice Flower Point Stop

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

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