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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Denis Waitley

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Denis Waitley
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
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Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.
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You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.
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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
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Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
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Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.
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Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.
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When you visualize, then you materialize. If you've been there in the mind you'll go there in the body
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The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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We don't get what we want, we get what we expect.
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Accept yourself as you are right now an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
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Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
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Chase your passion, not your pension.
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On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities.
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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
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First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.
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