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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.

Og Mandino

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
Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by all that your legacy was a better world than the one you found.
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Forever Journey Smile
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
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
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Failure Success Yourself
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Determination Enough Failure Myself Strong Success
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
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
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
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
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
I am not a human being, I am a human becoming.
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Growth Human Myself
Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.
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Enjoyment Time Worth
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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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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