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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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Denis Waitley
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
Businessperson
Motivational Speaker
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With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.
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Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.
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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
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Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.
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Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.
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You can only do good if you feel good.
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We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
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Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.
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One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
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Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
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The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.
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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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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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The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.
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Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.
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Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.
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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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We don't get what we want, we get what we expect.
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