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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Og Mandino

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
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Character Control Deep Force Himself Strong Thinking Weakness
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
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Accomplishment Inspirational Life Magic Success Yourself
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
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Darkness Direction Failure Hide Moments Peace Satisfaction Success Time
I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world. And so long as I can Laugh never will I be poor.
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Forget Important Laugh Myself Poor Powerful Wisdom World
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
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Choice Goodness Habit Myself Slave
What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
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Dream Failure Inspirational Life Past Yourself
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.
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Creation Gift Morning Opportunity Smile Special
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat never take yourself too seriously.
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Decision Defeat Depression Laughter Life Pain Perspective Serious Yourself
Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them as you make the effort.
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Attention Effort Learning Pay Yourself
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
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Growth Myself Purpose
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.
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Difference Failure Habit Inspirational Success Truth
My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
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Change End Life Mistake Myself Personality
And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature’s greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.
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Gift Greatness Laugh Myself Nature Poor
Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.
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Inspirational Start Wasted Time
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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Hard Time See Success
You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.
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Inspirational Reality Run Yourself

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

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