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We don't get what we want, we get what we expect.

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Denis Waitley
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
Businessperson
Motivational Speaker
Writer
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Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
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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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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
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Don't let negative people determine your self-worth.
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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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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.
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Profit is the celebration of service.
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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
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Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.
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Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.
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The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action
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Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is motive in action.
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Success always has a price success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.
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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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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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You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest.
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A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.
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THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY.
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Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.
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