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Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

Og Mandino

What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.
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Dream Failure Inspirational Life Past 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
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
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Choice Goodness Habit Myself Slave
Realize how good you really are.
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Goodness One Liner Self Love Worth 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
You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.
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Achievement Dream Goal Time Yourself
Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
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Action Inspirational Success Yourself
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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Best Plant Result Yourself
My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.
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Appearance Cold Deep Heart Love Myself Sun Talk Trust
Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them as you make the effort.
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Attention Effort Learning Pay Yourself
I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
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Challenge Endurance Happiness Heart Myself
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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Expectation Generosity Yourself
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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Character Company Listen
Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.
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Inspirational Start Wasted Time
In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.
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Difference Failure Habit Inspirational Success Truth
One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one’s ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
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Ability Achievement Discover Greatness Joy Oneself
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
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Determination Enough Failure Myself Strong Success
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Shame
Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
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Beginning Human Self Love Walk Worth Yourself
Action will destroy your procrastination.
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Action Destroy Inspirational One Liner
With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.
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Achievement Break Dream Goal Strategy
I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world. And so long as I can Laugh never will I be poor.
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Forget Important Laugh Myself Poor Powerful Wisdom World
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
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Darkness Direction Failure Hide Moments Peace Satisfaction Success Time
I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.
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Act Forever Lost Marriage Myself Person Place Success Time Wait
Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.
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Creation Gift Morning Opportunity Smile Special
Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.
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Best Difficult Effort Remember Yourself

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