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Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

Denis Waitley

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
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Acceptance Change Growth Imperfection Person Right
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 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
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
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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Achievement Approval Constant Worth 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
You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.
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Emotion Feeling Project Yourself
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
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Better Change Desperate Inspirational Seek
The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.
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Achievement Greatness Performance Yourself
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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Achievement Apply Effort Result 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
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
Real power comes by empowering others.
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Empowerment Power Reality
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
Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.
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Drive Image Motivational Reality Travel Yourself
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

Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

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