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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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The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.
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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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Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.
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The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
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Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.
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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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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
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Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.
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It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.
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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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People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.
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You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
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The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'
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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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Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.
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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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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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Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.
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