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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
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Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
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Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
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Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
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The more you know the less you need to say.
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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
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When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
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Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
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You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
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The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
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Labor gives birth to ideas.
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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.