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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

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
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
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
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
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
You can’t conquer reality by running away from it.
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Inspirational Reality Run Yourself
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
Action will destroy your procrastination.
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Action Destroy Inspirational One Liner
Nothing is easier than fault finding.
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Easy Mistake
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 feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Shame
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
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
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
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Laugh Myself Poor
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

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