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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.

Denis Waitley

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
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
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Acceptance Change Growth Imperfection Person Right
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
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
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
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Character Improvement Project Winner 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
Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
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Belief Ignition Launch Yourself
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
Don’t let negative people determine your self-worth.
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Determination Negative People Worth
What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them.
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Character Children Important Leaving Value Yourself
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
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
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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Learning Mistake Past Success 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
Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager.
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Choice Management Priority Time
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
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Distraction Greatness Listening Pay Person Value Yourself

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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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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