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Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.

Denis Waitley

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Denis Waitley
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
Businessperson
Motivational Speaker
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.
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People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.
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