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If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
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And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.
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The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.
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I try to scare myself at least once a day.
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We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.
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The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.
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If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.
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We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.
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We give thanks for these things and that gratitude reciprocates, creating more to be thankful for. It’s simple, and it works.
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Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.
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Most things are more rewarding when you break a sweat to get em.
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Do not fall into the entitlement trap of feeling you are a victim, you are not. Get over it and get on with it.
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Life’s not easy…don’t try and make it that way. It’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, it won’t ever be.
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It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.
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This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being, and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
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When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, SMILE! This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.
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TIME is a Master Worker that heals the wounds of temporary defeat; equalizes the inequalities, and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing ‘impossible’ with time!
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No one may become a real leader in any walk of life without practicing the habit of doing more work and better work than that for which he is paid.
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The man who labors without a definite purpose that is backed up by a definite plan for its attainment, resembles the ship that has lost its rudder.
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Your fears must be mastered before you can win in any worthwhile undertaking in life.
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Men who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, while men who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances.
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First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
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True magnanimity consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.
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No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.