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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called ‘Someday I’ll.’
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Dreams Fantasy Live People
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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Break Commitment Lose Promise Win
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
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
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Block Determination Yourself
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
You become that to which you are most exposed.
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Expose Growth Transformation Yourself
Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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Comparison Goal Measurement
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
No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.
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Born Confidence Experience Growth Learning Oneself
When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
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Kill Opportunity Success Time
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
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Acceptance Change Growth Imperfection Person Right
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
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 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
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
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

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

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