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Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.
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The more you know the less you need to say.
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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
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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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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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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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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
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Whatever good things we build end up building us.
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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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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
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If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
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Labor gives birth to ideas.
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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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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
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Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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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 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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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.
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Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
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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.