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Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.

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Denis Waitley
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
Businessperson
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Overuse
Rust
Dues
Lack
Challenge
Challenges
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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.
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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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Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.
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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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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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Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.
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Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.
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The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
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The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.
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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.
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I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.
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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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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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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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Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.
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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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