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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.

Og Mandino

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
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Accomplishment Inspirational Life Magic Success 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
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
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
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.
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Carry Fortune Goodness
True happiness lies within you.
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Happiness True Yourself
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
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Failure Success Yourself
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
Action will destroy your procrastination.
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Action Destroy Inspirational One Liner
Use wisely your power of choice.
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Choice Power Wisdom 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
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
Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
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Generosity Happiness Remember
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
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
True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.
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Deep Oneself Security True
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
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Laugh Myself Poor
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
Nothing is easier than fault finding.
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Easy Mistake

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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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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