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Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

Denis Waitley

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 greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.
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Greatness Limitation Place Yourself
Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.
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Benefit Person Silence Talk
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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Break Commitment Lose Promise Win
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
Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.
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Bed Comfortable Difficult Easy Habit
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
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
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
God’s Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.
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God Law Life Quality Reward Run Service 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
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
You must feel love within, before you can share it.
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Feeling Love Share Yourself
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
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
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Believe Inspirational 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

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

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