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  • 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.

  • Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  • I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  • Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

  • Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

  • Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

  • Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

  • Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

  • It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

  • To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

  • Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

  • The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  • 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.

  • Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  • The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

  • Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

  • Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

  • The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.

  • To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

  • Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

  • Wealth should never be your goal in life. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

  • Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

  • Cherish each hour of this day for it can NEVER return.

  • I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.

  • Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats."

  • Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will."

  • I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?

  • And I leave you now, not with sadness but with satisfaction and joy that we came together and walked, arm in arm, through this brief moment of eternity. Who could ask for more?

  • No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

  • Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

  • I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.

  • Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

  • Nothing is easier than fault finding.

  • 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.

  • Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

  • 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.

  • I will form good habits and become their slaves.

  • Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

  • Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

  • Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

  • I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

  • I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

  • 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.

  • Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.

  • 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.

  • The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

  • I will greet this day with love in my heart.

  • Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  • Failure is... the highway to success.

  • If I persist long enough I will win.

  • 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.

  • Do all things with love.

  • Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

  • Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.

  • And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

  • I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

  • The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

  • No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

  • Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

  • Never settle for the crumbs of life.

  • You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

  • I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

  • For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The first day is yesterday with all its blunders and tears, follies and defeats. Yesterday has passed away, beyond my control forever. The other day is tomorrow with all its pitfalls and threats, its dangers and mystery. Until the sun rises again I have no stake in tomorrow, for it is still unborn.

  • I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

  • I will persist until I succeed!

  • So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist.

  • Use wisely your power of choice.

  • Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

  • I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

  • A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

  • Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  • Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

  • You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

  • The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

  • I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

  • Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.

  • 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.

  • There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

  • Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

  • Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

  • A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

  • Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

  • The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement

  • I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

  • Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

  • I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. Be a self-starter. 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. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

  • 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.

  • How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

  • You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

  • You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal - to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.

  • Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

  • The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

  • 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.

  • Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead...

  • Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

  • Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

  • Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

  • You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

  • We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.

  • I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.

  • Success and rest don't sleep together.

  • Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

  • I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

  • 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

  • It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this 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.

  • Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

  • I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.

  • Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

  • Realize how good you really are.

  • Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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