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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.

Denis Waitley

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
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
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Avoid Cost Life Nothing Risk Yourself
One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor.
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Floor Oneself Person
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
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Block Determination Yourself
Your best friend should bring out the best in you.
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Best Company Friendship Yourself
The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.
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Expectation Karma Mirror Reflection See World Yourself
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
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Better Change Desperate Inspirational Seek
When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
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Kill Opportunity Success Time
Real power comes by empowering others.
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Empowerment Power Reality
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 most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.
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Important Permanent Positive Practice Talk
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
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
We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
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Dreams Inspirational True
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
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
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
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Children Decision Desire Listening Yourself
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
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
Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it’s easier.
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Easy Knowledge People Time Word
The world needs role models, instead of critics.
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Criticism Idol Modeling Need Role World
Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.
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Opportunity Yourself
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
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Expectation Planning Preparation Surprise Worst
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
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Knowledge Life Potential Price Value 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
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

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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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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