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Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Denis Waitley

Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.
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Eyes Mindset Mirror Person Respect Yourself
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.
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Dependent Drive Persistence Success
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
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.
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Count Difference Eyes Life Movie 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
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
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
The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.
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Greatness Limitation Place Yourself
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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Children Gift Greatness Independence Responsibility Yourself
You can only do good if you feel good.
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Feeling Goodness Yourself
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
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Best Level Worth Yourself
Chase your passion, not your pension.
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Chase Money Passion Priority Yourself
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
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
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
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Appearance Character Impression Try 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
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
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Acceptance Change Growth Imperfection Person Right
Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager.
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Choice Management Priority 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
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
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Best Energy Focus Goal Live Ourselves Power Provision Way
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
Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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Answer Energy Focus Wrong Yourself
By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place – it is a launching pad.
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Focus Goal Life Place Stay Yourself
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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Achievement Apply Effort Result Yourself
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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Learning Mistake Past Success Yourself
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
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Challenge Contentment Inspirational People Purpose
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

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