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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Denis Waitley

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Denis Waitley
Age: 92
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
Businessperson
Motivational Speaker
Writer
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Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.
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All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.
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The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.
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You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
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Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
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The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action
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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad
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Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
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Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.
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Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.
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Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.
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Winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance.
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Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
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When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
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