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Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Denis Waitley

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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Achievement Apply Effort Result 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
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
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
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Challenge Contentment Inspirational People Purpose
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
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Behavior Fast Force Motivational Yourself
The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action.
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Action Fear Greatness Knowledge
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
How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.
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Important Material Position Possession Time 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
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
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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Care Light Person Share Smile Window
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
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Creation Goodness Live Material Time Truth Yourself
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 greatest achievements are those that benefit others.
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Achievement Benefit Greatness
No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.
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Gift Person Replacement Value
Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.
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Harm Limitation Pieces Success Suffering Yourself
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
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Appearance Character Impression Try 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
The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.
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Achievement Greatness Performance 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
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
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
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
The world needs role models, instead of critics.
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Criticism Idol Modeling Need Role World
Chase your passion, not your pension.
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Chase Money Passion Priority Yourself
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
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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Break Comfortable Creation Dreams Future Unknown Vision Yourself

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