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A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

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Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

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I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

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In each of us there are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

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Don’t always try to be popular. It isn’t possible for everyone to like you. It’s far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.

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Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

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Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible.

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I don’t believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

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