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You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

Og Mandino

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
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
I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man.
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Destroy Greatness Heart Love Man Myself Power Secret Success
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
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
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Act Action Mindset Myself Necessary Success Word
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
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Laugh Myself Poor
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
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.
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Achievement Dream Endurance Goal Habit Success Victory Win Yourself
Realize how good you really are.
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Goodness One Liner Self Love Worth Yourself
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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Best Plant Result 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
Nothing is easier than fault finding.
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Easy Mistake
I am not a human being, I am a human becoming.
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Growth Human Myself
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
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.
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Failure Fools Hope Impossible Myself Quit Word
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
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
And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature’s greatest gifts and I will waste it no more.
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Gift Greatness Laugh Myself Nature Poor
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
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
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
I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.
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Eyes Greatness Heart Broken Life Myself Opportunity Problem Secret Thinking Truth
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
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Darkness Endurance Light Love Myself
You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.
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Inspirational Reality Run Yourself
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

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