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"I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet."

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."

"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives."

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."

"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."

"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes."

"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."

"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do."

"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating."

"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."

"You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing."

"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."

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."

"Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win."

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