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Denis Waitley

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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Achievement Approval Constant Worth Yourself
Real power comes by empowering others.
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Empowerment Power Reality
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
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
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
Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
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Deep Habit Silence Submarine
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
Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.
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Benefit Person Silence Talk
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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Learning Mistake Past Success Yourself
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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Break Comfortable Creation Dreams Future Unknown Vision Yourself
Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager.
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Choice Management Priority Time
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 price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
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Criticism Jealous Price Success
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
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
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
Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.
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Opportunity Yourself
Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
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Commitment Destiny Life Moments Yourself
The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action.
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Action Fear Greatness Knowledge
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
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
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
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Learning Lesson Process Reach Status Success Yourself
Your best friend should bring out the best in you.
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Best Company Friendship Yourself
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
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
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Better Change Desperate Inspirational Seek
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Expectation Planning Preparation Surprise Worst
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

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

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