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Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

Og Mandino

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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Hard Time See Success
The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.
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Children Greatness Happiness Leaving Memories
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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Beginning Care Death Kindness Life Reward Understand Yourself
Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
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Business Expectation Greatness Inspirational Opportunity Time
Use wisely your power of choice.
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Choice Power Wisdom Yourself
My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
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Change End Life Mistake Myself Personality
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.
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Accomplishment Effort Failure Live Power Result Strong Weakness
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
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Forever Journey Smile
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
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Action Dream Goal Impossible Myself Planning Worth
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
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Difficult Inspirational Myself Success Time Truth
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
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Force Greatness Love Myself Weapon
I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
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Laugh Man Myself Serious World
A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
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Gift Myself Power Smile
You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
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Attitude Character Success Win Yourself
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat never take yourself too seriously.
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Decision Defeat Depression Laughter Life Pain Perspective Serious Yourself
Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
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Generosity Happiness Remember

Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

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