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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.

Denis Waitley

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.
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Effort Forever Perseverance Yourself
The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.
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Important Permanent Positive Practice Talk
If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.
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Elimination Focus Future Present 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
Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called ‘Someday I’ll.’
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Dreams Fantasy Live People
Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!
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Difference Inspirational Lose Winner
Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
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Belief Ignition Launch Yourself
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
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Challenge Contentment Inspirational People Purpose
Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times
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Day Easy Energy Project Recognition Time
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
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
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
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
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Acceptance Change Remove Yourself
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
Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
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Health Lost Precious Recognition Time
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
We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
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Forgiveness Ourselves Self Love
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
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Better Change Desperate Inspirational Seek
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
Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
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Deep Habit Silence Submarine
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
You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.
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Emotion Feeling Project Yourself
Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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Comparison Goal Measurement
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
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
One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor.
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Floor Oneself Person
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
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Essence Experience Life Love Worth

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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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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