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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Denis Waitley

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Expectation Planning Preparation Surprise Worst
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
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Challenge Contentment Inspirational People Purpose
We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
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Dreams Inspirational True
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
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Distraction Greatness Listening Pay Person Value Yourself
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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Children Gift Greatness Independence Responsibility 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
The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.
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Greatness Limitation Place 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
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
How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.
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Important Material Position Possession Time Yourself
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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Achievement Apply Effort Result Yourself
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
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
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Acceptance Change Remove Yourself
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
No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
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Time Wasted Time Yourself
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
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Character Improvement Project Winner Yourself

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