Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
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- If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
- Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
- To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
- The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
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