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Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

Og Mandino

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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Determination Enough Failure Myself Strong Success
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.
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Carry Fortune Goodness
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
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Laugh Myself Poor
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 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
Success and rest don’t sleep together.
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Inspirational One Liner Success Togetherness
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
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
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
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
I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
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Challenge Endurance Happiness Heart Myself
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
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
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
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Force Greatness Love Myself Weapon
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
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
I will greet this day with love in my heart.
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Heart Love Myself
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
My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.
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Change End Life Mistake Myself Personality
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
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
Realize how good you really are.
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Goodness One Liner Self Love Worth Yourself
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
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
The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.
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Children Greatness Happiness Leaving Memories
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
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

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