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Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Denis Waitley

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
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
Doubters don’t win, winners don’t doubt.
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Doubt Inspirational Mindset One Liner Win
You must feel love within, before you can share it.
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Feeling Love Share Yourself
The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!
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Important Word 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
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
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
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
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Block Determination Yourself
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
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Appearance Character Impression Try Yourself
The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.
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Learning Primary Success Yourself
Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. … Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.
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Focus Goal Persistence Success Target
Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
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Deep Habit Silence Submarine
The world needs role models, instead of critics.
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Criticism Idol Modeling Need Role World
Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.
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Choice Flower Point Stop
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
We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
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Dreams Inspirational True
One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor.
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Floor Oneself Person
Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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Comparison Goal Measurement
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
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Better Change Desperate Inspirational Seek
Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.
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Benefit Person Silence Talk
Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.
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Blessing Knowledge Lesson Positive Reason 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 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
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
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
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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Expectation Experience Expert Knowledge Learning Stop

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

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