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How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

Denis Waitley

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 are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.
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Age Life Play Position Scripture Writing Yourself
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
Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.
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Opportunity Yourself
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
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
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
Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.
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Benefit Person Silence Talk
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
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
When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
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Kill Opportunity Success Time
Chase your passion, not your pension.
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Chase Money Passion Priority Yourself
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
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Energy Goal New Valley View
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
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
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
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
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Best Level Worth Yourself
Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.
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Customer Path Pay Service
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
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Control Detail Future Goal Learning Moments Past Time 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
Don’t wait for mentors to seek you out. Don’t ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.
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Call Mentor Phone Question Respond Yourself
The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.
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Inspirational Person Possible Success True
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
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Appearance Character Impression Try Yourself
You can only do good if you feel good.
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Feeling Goodness Yourself
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
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Better Change Desperate Inspirational Seek
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.
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Clear Conscience Relationship Respect Rich Yourself
When you visualize, then you materialize. If you’ve been there in the mind you’ll go there in the body.
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Body Material Mindset Visual Yourself

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