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SEE IT, LIKE IT IS.
No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advancement in the world.
The facts do not cease to exist because you ignore them.
If fifty-million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Successful people are realistic.
They are not trapped by false appearances.
They see the world as it is.
The truth is what it is.
It is neither good nor bad.
It is reality.
Tailor your concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into your concepts.
See it like it is, and you're on your way to success.

SUCCESS IS THE CHILD OF PERSEVERANCE.
Success cannot be coaxed or bribed, pay the price and it is yours.
The world is run with far too close a rein for luck to interfere.
Success sells her wares, she never gives them.
In some form or other, you pay for her favors, or you go away empty handed.
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it.
There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay for just leaving things as they are.
There's a price for everything.
Success cannot be tricked or cheated.
She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
There is no success at bargain basement prices.

YOU CAN WIN ONLY IF YOU BEGIN.
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run.
You must take the first step.
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put your plan into action.
The first step will take some effort, maybe pain.
But after that, everything that has to be done is real life movement.
Once you're moving you can keep moving.
If you can get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
The only true failure lies in the failure to start.
Eighty per cent of success is just showing up.

BE READY WHEN OPPORTUNITY COMES.
By the law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again and again.
Not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in it's own period, and each obeying it's own law.
There is a tide in your affairs, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
As events tend to repeat themselves, the tide of opportunity will come to you.
Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
When you are prepared your chance for success is sure to come.
You can change chance into good fortune when you are ready.
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

YOU ARE THE MASTER OF YOUR FATE.
Although your character is formed by circumstances, your own desires can do much to shape those circumstances.
What is truly ennobling in the doctrine of free will is the conviction that you have the power over the formation of your own character.
Nature is at work around you.
Character and destiny are her handiwork.
She gives you love and hate, jealousy and reverence.
Yours is the power to choose which impulse you will follow.
You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life, no one can take that away from you.
You are the master or your joys and your sorrows.
The greatest power you possess is the power to choose.

TO WIN, YOU'VE GOT TO STAY IN THE GAME.
You cannot have success without dealing with problems.
Look for your opportunity in every difficulty, instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
Every new experience brings with it the seed of your success.
Even your current difficulties have within them opportunity.
Welcome your problems as opportunities.
Each moment is your greatest challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you.
The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.
When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

WHAT YOU DO, TELLS WHAT YOU ARE.
You reveal yourself to the world by your behavior.
It is not your position in life but your disposition that determines success.
What happens to you is less significant than what happens within you.
Recognize that all things are difficult before they are easy.
The thoughts you have chosen have brought you to where you are today.
Change your thoughts and you change your actions.
Change your actions and you are on the road to success.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

SUCCESS IS A MATTER OF EXPECTATION.
When you believe something good can happen, it does.
In order to succeed, you must expect to succeed.
If you want to succeed beyond your wildest expectations, begin with some wild expectations.
Set your goals high.
When you expect things to happen, strangely enough, they do happen.
Expectation energizes your goals and gives them momentum.
Your life will respond to your outlook.
The dreams you choose to believe in come to be.

SUCCESS IS THE RESULT OF WELL DIRECTED ENERGY.
The first rule of success, and one that supersedes all others, is to have energy.
It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.
Nothing can add more power to your life then concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
Focus the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve, and it will be yours.
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshall all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastering your field of endeavor.
You must be single minded.
Drive for the thing you have decided upon.
The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

OPPORTUNITY LIES IN THE MIDDLE OF DIFFICULTY.
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.
Most successful people have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them.
They developed the opportunity that was at hand.
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.
The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it.
No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it.
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
You must make your own opportunities if you want success.

THINK IN TERMS OF WHAT THE OTHER PERSON WANTS.
You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enough other people to get what they want.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Your success depends on the support of other people.
The only hurdle between you and what you want to be is the support of others.
You cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening your own.

ALL PROGRESS BEGINS ONE STEP AT A TIME.
There is no sudden leap to greatness.
Good work done little by little becomes a great work.
The house of success is built brick by brick.
You can do what you want to do, achieve what you want to achieve, and attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind.
Not all of a sudden, not in one sweeping act of achievement.
You will do it gradually, day by day.
If you want to do it, if you work to do it, you will accomplish your goal over a sufficient period of time.
Maximum success is achieved in steps.
Your big accomplishments will be a series of little accomplishments.
It takes many strokes to overthrow the tallest oak.

DREAMS COME TRUE IF YOU PURSUE THEM.
Reality forms around your commitment.
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
Learn that obstacles don't matter very much.
Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want something bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms the nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.

GOALS ARE WHAT KEEP YOU GOING.
Establish a goal worth working for.
Better still, get yourself a project.
Just to be continuously working is not enough.
Always have something ahead of you, to "look forward to," to work for and hope for.
Always visualize your next step.
Keep moving after you achieve a goal and set another.
Momentum is maintained by always having something to look forward to.
Constantly give yourself something to work for.
Do what you can do well, and do well whatever you can do.

YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY OPPORTUNITY.
The people that really succeed in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity in your life is where you are right now.
Properly perceived, every situation becomes an opportunity for you.
Your destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of your choice.
It is not something you wait for, but rather something you achieve with effort.
Things won't turn up in this world until you turn them up.
You develop opportunity by applying persistence to your possibilities.
Opportunity is all around you. Look for it, and you will find it.

GROWTH IS INEVITABLE ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS.
Prepare for personal growth on the road to success.
All growth means change and change involves risk.
You grow because you struggle, you learn and overcome.
Difficulties in life are the things that show you what you are.
Trouble is the common denominator of living.
It is the great equalizer.
What happens to you is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Everything you experience "good or bad" has value.
Only when you are no longer afraid do you begin to live.

LIFE RESPONDS TO YOUR OUTLOOK.
The dreams you choose to believe in come to be.
When you feel in your innermost being that you will achieve what you set out to do, you open the way for miracles.
Choose to believe something good can happen.
Expecting it to happen energizes your goal and gives it momentum.
What you expect to happen, happens.
Expect success and you make success.

SUCCESS CAN START ANYTIME.
Don't be afraid to live.
Don't wait until things change, until you have more time, until you are less tired, until you get the promotion, until you settle down, until, until, until.
Don't wait for some major event in your life to occur before you begin living.
You'll accomplish nothing if you wait for all the possible objections to be overcome.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid.
Once you have started, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success, is crowded with grand possibilities.
Success is yours if you want it.

YOU MAKE YOUR OWN OPPORTUNITIES.
Your destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of your choice.
It's not something you wait for, but rather something you pursue.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities.
Seize common occasions and make them great.
Opportunities often come disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Start where you are.
You're at this moment, standing right in the middle of opportunity.
Act on your dreams and you can have them.

SUCCESS IS A STATE OF MIND.
If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
The only thing that stands between you and what you want from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
There is nothing on earth that you cannot have, once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.
The feeling must come first.
If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have all that you need, it will be so.
What the your mind can conceive and believe, your mind can achieve.

YOU ARE YOUR ENVIRONMENT.
The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you're not going to stay where you are.
Always be mindful that you are a product of your environment.
So choose an environment that will best develop you toward your objective.
Analyze your life in terms of your environment.
Are the things around you helping you toward your success, or are they holding you back.
You're not a captive of your environment.
If you don't like where you are change it, you're not a tree.
Don't say, "If you could, you would," say, "If you can, you will."
When you become part of anything, it becomes a part of you.

YOUR TRIALS AND SORROWS DEVELOP YOU.
Trouble is the common denominator of living.
It is the great equalizer of life.
Whatever good or bad fortune comes your way, you must give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Growth is the process of responding positively to change.
Growth means change and change involves risks, stepping from the known to the unknown.
All your growth depends on activity.
It comes only through continuous effort and struggle.
You will have no development, without effort.
Nature chips and pounds you to bring out your possibilities.
She will strip you of wealth, humble your pride, humiliate your ambition, let you down from the ladder of fame, will discipline you in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character.
Everything gives way to that.
Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, who you become inside is everything.
What happens to you is not as important as how you react to what happens.

NOTHING IN LIFE IS TO BE FEARED.
It's time to face the things that scare you, and open the door to freedom.
It's an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of your fear will immunize you against that fear. Do what you fear and fear disappears.
Your obstacles will melt away if, instead of cowering before them, you make up your mind to walk boldly through them.
To fight fear, you must act.
To increase fear, simply wait, delay, put off, postpone.
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
Your success and freedom are but a determined action away.

EIGHTY PERCENT OF SUCCESS IS SHOWING UP.
The only way to start to improve your life is to start.
When you are sure you're on the right road there is no need to plan your journey too far ahead.
Don't burden yourself with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar your progress.
You can only take one step at a time.
You don't need to know all the answers in advance.
Just have a clear idea of the goal you want to reach.
Always remember, if you can get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
It's the job you never start that takes the longest to finish.
Go after what you want and you'll get it.

YOU CAN PLANT A DREAM.
The purpose of a goal is to focus your attention.
Your mind reaches toward achievement when it has clear objectives.
Magic begins when you set some goals.
It is then that your internal switch is turned on, the current begins to flow, and your power to accomplish becomes a reality.
Deciding what you want, is the indispensable step to getting the things you want out of life.
If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there.
There is no achievement without goals.

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