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Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Og Mandino

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
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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Career Defeat Importance Necessary Struggle Success
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
Never settle for the crumbs of life.
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Inspirational Life One Liner
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
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
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
So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
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Breathe Greatness Myself Principle Win
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
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
Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.
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Attitude Future Gift God Life Moments Pain Planning Poison
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
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
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
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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Character Myself Praise Talk
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
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Character Company Listen
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
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Growth Myself Purpose
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
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
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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Best Plant Result Yourself
Nothing is easier than fault finding.
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Easy Mistake
I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.
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Failure Myself Persistence Success
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
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Character Control Deep Force Himself Strong Thinking Weakness
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Attitude Character Learning Student
I will greet this day with love in my heart.
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Heart Love Myself
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.
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Inspirational Limitation Mindset Yourself
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath so what does that make today worth?
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Breathe Death Money World Worth

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