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

Denis Waitley

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
The truth is, you don’t break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.
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Bad Break Goodness Habit Oneself Replacement Truth
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
Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!
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Difference Inspirational Lose Winner
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
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Challenge Contentment Inspirational People Purpose
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
The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.
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Expectation Karma Mirror Reflection See World 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
Real success comes in small portions day by day.
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Day Portion Reality Small Success
Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.
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Harm Limitation Pieces Success Suffering Yourself
Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.
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Drive Image Motivational Reality Travel Yourself
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
Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it’s easier.
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Easy Knowledge People Time Word
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
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Expectation Planning Preparation Surprise Worst
Commitment doesn’t guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you’ll fall far short of your potential.
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Commitment Fall Potential Short Success Yourself
There never was a winner, who wasn’t a beginner.
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Beginning One Liner Winner
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
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
You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.
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Emotion Feeling Project Yourself
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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Break Commitment Lose Promise Win
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
Your best friend should bring out the best in you.
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Best Company Friendship Yourself
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
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Best Level Worth Yourself
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
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Appearance Character Impression Try 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
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
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Earn Experience Grace Gratitude Happiness Spiritual Time Travel

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