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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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Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.
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The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.
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Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
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When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.
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On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities.
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A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
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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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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
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The ability to adapt is everything!
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Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Conceive + Believe = Achieve.
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You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
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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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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
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Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.
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Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.
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The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
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Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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