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Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

Denis Waitley

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Expectation Planning Preparation Surprise Worst
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
Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager.
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Choice Management Priority Time
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
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Challenge Contentment Inspirational People Purpose
The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
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Criticism Jealous Price Success
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
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Behavior Fast Force Motivational Yourself
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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Acceptance Change Choice Primary Responsibility
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
We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
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Forgiveness Ourselves Self Love
The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.
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Stop Time Trouble Try
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
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
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
Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called ‘Someday I’ll.’
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Dreams Fantasy Live People
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
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Establishment Failure Forget Live Negative Worth
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

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