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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Expectation Planning Preparation Surprise Worst
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
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
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
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
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Acceptance Change Remove Yourself
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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Desire Energy Need Spring Willing Win
The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.
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Expectation Karma Mirror Reflection See World Yourself
The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.
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Act Action Choice Goal Greatness Life Ourselves Thinking
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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Learning Mistake Past Success Yourself
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
Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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Comparison Goal Measurement
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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Break Commitment Lose Promise Win
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
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Change Direction Failure Forget Success Temporary
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
Don’t ‘take care’, take a risk!
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Care Choice Inspirational One Liner Risk
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

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