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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Og Mandino

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one’s ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
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Ability Achievement Discover Greatness Joy Oneself
I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.
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Failure Myself Persistence Success
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
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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Career Defeat Importance Necessary Struggle Success
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.
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Failure Fools Hope Impossible Myself Quit Word
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
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Forever Journey Smile
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
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Attitude Character Learning Student
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
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
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
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
You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.
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Inspirational Reality Run Yourself
Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
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Action Inspirational Success Yourself
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.
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Achievement Break Dream Goal Strategy
Action will destroy your procrastination.
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Action Destroy Inspirational One Liner

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

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Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

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