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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.

Denis Waitley

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
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
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.
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Count Difference Eyes Life Movie Yourself
The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you’ve got the real thing, you don’t have to flaunt a loud imitation.
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Grace Humble Imitation Life Reality Yourself
Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
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Deep Habit Silence Submarine
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
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.
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Achievement Definition Establishment Goal Photograph Production Secret
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Expectation Planning Preparation Surprise Worst
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
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
Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.
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Benefit Person Silence Talk
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 gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.
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Gift Person Replacement Value
We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
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Forgiveness Ourselves Self Love
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
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

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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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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