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Develop Success From Failures. Discouragement And Failure Are Two Of The Surest Stepping Stones To Success. The Successful Man Will Profit From His Mistakes And Try Again In A Different Way. When You're Afraid, Keep Your Mind On What You Have To Do...if You Have Been Thoroughly Prepared, You Will Not Be Afraid. We All Have Possibilities We Don't Know About. We Can Do Things We Don't Even Dream We Can Do.

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Develop Success From Failures.

Dale Carnegie

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Develop Success From Failures. Discouragement And Failure Are Two Of The Surest Stepping Stones To Success. The Successful Man Will Profit From His Mistakes And Try Again In A Different Way. When You're Afraid, Keep Your Mind On What You Have To Do...if You Have Been Thoroughly Prepared, You Will Not Be Afraid. We All Have Possibilities We Don't Know About. We Can Do Things We Don't Even Dream We Can Do.

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Remember That No One Ever Kicks A Dead Dog.

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Your Purpose Is To Make Your Audience See What You Saw, Hear What You Heard, Feel What You Felt. Relevant Detail, Couched In Concrete, Colorful Language, Is The Best Way To Recreate The Incident As It Happened And To Picture It For The Audience.

The Ideas I Stand For Are Not Mine. I Borrowed Them From Socrates. I Swiped Them From Chesterfield. I Stole Them From Jesus. And I Put Them In A Book.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words, And A Smile Says, 'i Like You. You Make Me Happy. I Am Glad To See You.' That Is Why Dogs Make Such A Hit. They Are So Glad To See Us That They Almost Jump Out Of Their Skins. So, Naturally, We Are Glad To See Them.

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Every Minister, Lecturer And Public Speaker Know The Discouragement Of Pouring Himself Of Herself Out To An Audience And Not Receiving A Single Ripple Of Appreciative Comment.

No Matter What Happens, Always Be Yourself.

Always Be Yourself

The Words "think And Thank" Are Inscribed In Many Of The Cromwellian Churches Of England. These Words Ought To Be Inscribed In Our Hearts, Too: "think And Thank". Think Of All We Have To Be Grateful For, And Thank God For All Our Boons And Bounties.

People Do Things For "their" Reasons, Not Ours. So Find Their Reasons.

Did You Ever See An Unhappy Horse? Did You Ever See Bird That Had The Blues? One Reason Why Birds And Horses Are Not Unhappy Is Because They Are Not Trying To Impress Other Birds And Horses.

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If You Tell Me How You Get Your Feeling Of Importance, I'll Tell You What You Are.

When You're Afraid Keep Your Mind On What You Have To Do. And If You Have Been Thoroughly Prepared You Will Not Be Afraid.

If You Want Others To Like You, If You Want To Develop Real Friendships, If You Want To Help Others At The Same Time As You Help Yourself, Keep This Principle In Mind: Become Genuinely Interested In Other People.

Tomorrow You May Want To Persuade Somebody To Do Something. Before You Speak, Pause And As Yourself, "how Can I Make This Person Want To Do It?

It Isn't Work That Makes You Tired, It's Your Mental Attitude.

Mental Attitude

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