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Nothing Else So Inspires And Heartens People As Words Of Appreciation. You And I May Soon Forger The Words Of Encouragement And Appreciation That We Utter Now, But The Person To Whom We Have Spoken Them May Treasure Them And Repeat Them To Themselves Over A Lifetime

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Dale Carnegie

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Nothing Else So Inspires And Heartens People As Words Of Appreciation. You And I May Soon Forger The Words Of Encouragement And Appreciation That We Utter Now, But The Person To Whom We Have Spoken Them May Treasure Them And Repeat Them To Themselves Over A Lifetime

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It Is The Way We React To Circumstances That Determines Our Feelings.

Act As If You Were Already Happy And That Will Tend To Make You Happy.

There Are Always Three Speeches, For Every One You Actually Gave. The One You Practiced, The One You Gave, And The One You Wish You Gave.

I Wasn't Interested In Making A Lot Of Money, But I Was Interested In Making A Lot Of Living.

Face The Thing That Seems Overwhelming And You Will Be Surprised How Your Fear Will Melt Away.

Do Things For Others And You'll Find Your Self-consciousness Evaporating Like Morning Dew.

The Sure-thing Boat Never Gets Far From Shore.

Will And Determination

Take Charge Of Your Attitude. Don't Let Someone Else Choose It For You.

History Has Repeatedly Been Changed By People Who Had The Desire And The Ability To Transfer Their Convictions And Emotions To Their Listeners.

Let's Never Try To Get Even With Our Enemies, Because If We Do We Will Hurt Ourselves Far More Than We Hurt Them. Let's Do As General Eisenhower Does: Let's Never Waste A Minute Thinking About People We Don't Like.

You Can Dramatize Your Ideas In Business Or In Any Other Aspect Of Your Life. It’s Easy

Excitement Radiates Through Your Eyes, Your Face, Your Voice, Your Soul, And Your Whole Personality.

If You Have Some Idea You Believe In, Don't Listen To The Croaking Chorus. Listen Only To What Your Own Inner Voice Tells You.

People Are Not Interested In You. They Are Not Interested In Me. They Are Interested In Themselves - Morning, Noon And After Dinner.

Talk About Your Own Mistakes Before Criticizing The Other Person.

Remember, Happiness Doesn't Depend Upon Who You Are Or What You Have; It Depends Solely Upon What You Think. So Start Each Day By Thinking Of All The Things You Have To Be Thankful For. Your Future Will Depend Very Largely On The Thoughts You Think Today. So Think Thoughts Of Hope And Confidence And Love And Success.

Let The Other Person Save Face.

Win Friends And Influence People

Even God Doesn't Propose To Judge A Man Till His Last Days, Why Should You And I?

If You Can Be Sure Of Being Right Only 55 Percent Of The Time, You Can Go Down To Wall Street And Make A Million Dollars A Day. If You Can't Be Sure Of Being Right Even 55 Percent Of The Time, Why Should You Tell Other People They Are Wrong?

People Like People Who Help Them Like Themselves.

You Can Get Ahead In The World. But You Will Have To Work, You Will Have To Want Tremendously To Accomplish Something, And Then Be Willing To Pay The Price. Are You Willing?

If You Are Not In The Process Of Becoming The Person You Want To Be, You Are Automatically Engaged In Becoming The Person You Don't Want To Be.

Finding Yourself

If Only The People Who Worry About Their Liabilities Would Think About The Riches They Do Possess, They Would Stop Worrying.

An Old Man Was Asked What Had Robbed Him Of Joy In His Life. His Reply Was, "things That Never Happened."

The World Is So Full Of People Who Are Grabbing And Self-seeking. So The Rare Individual Who Unselfishly Tries To Serve Others Has An Enormous Advantage. He Has Little Competition.

Make The Other Person Feel Important - And Do It Sincerely.

If You Do The Little Jobs Well, The Big Ones Will Tend To Take Care Of Themselves.

We Nourish The Bodies Of Our Children And Friends And Employees, But How Seldom Do We Nourish Their Selfesteem? We Provide Them With Roast Beef And Potatoes To Build Energy, But We Neglect To Give Them Kind Words Of Appreciation That Would Sing In Their Memories For Years Like The Music Of The Morning Stars.

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.

Remember That The People You Are Talking To Are A Hundred Times More Interested In Themselves And Their Wants And Problems Than They Are In You And Your Problems.

Happiness Is Largely An Attitude Of Mind, Of Viewing Life From The Right Angle.

The Resentment That Criticism Engenders Can Demoralize Employees, Family Members And Friends, And Still Not Correct The Situation That Has Been Condemned.

You Cannot Teach A Man Anything, You Can Only Help Him Find It Within Himself.

Most People Don't Remember Names, For The Simple Reason That They Don't Take The Time And Energy Necessary To Concentrate And Repeat And Fix Names Indelibly In Their Minds. They Make Excuses For Themselves; They Are Too Busy.

Live An Active Life Among People Who Are Doing Worthwhile Things, Keep Eyes And Ears And Mind And Heart Open To Absorb Truth, And Then Tell Of The Things You Know, As If You Know Them. The World Will Listen, For The World Loves Nothing So Much As Real Life.

It Isn’t What You Have Or Who You Are Or Where You Are Or What You’re Doing That Makes You Happy Or Unhappy. It’s What You Think Of It. Two People May In The Same Place Doing The Same Thing, And Yet One May Be Miserable And The Other Happy. Why? Because Of A Different Mental Attitude.

You Can't Get Anywhere In This World Without Wanting To Do Something.

If You Can Be Kind And Considerate For One Day, Then You Can Be For Another. It Won't Cost You A Penny In The World. Begin Today.

Act Enthusiastic And You Will Be Enthusiastic.

Enthusiasm For Life

The Way To Defeat Fear: Decide On A Course Of Conduct And Follow It. Keep So Busy And Work So Hard That You Forget About Being Afraid.

Feeling Sorry For Yourself, And Your Present Condition, Is Not Only A Waste Of Energy But The Worst Habit You Could Possibly Have.

Create Happiness For Others.

You And I Are Standing This Very Second At The Meeting Place Of Two Eternities: The Vast Past That Has Endured Forever, And The Future That Is Plunging On To The Last Syllable Of Recorded Time. We Can't Possible Live In Either Of Those Eternities - No, Not Even For A Split Second. But, By Trying To Do So, We Can Wreck Both Our Bodies And Our Minds. So Let's Be Content To Live The Only Time We Can Possible Live: From Now Until Bedtime.

If You Want To Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over The Beehive.

So If You Aspire To Be A Good Conversationali St, Be An Attentive Listener.

Good Conversation

Speakers Who Talk About What Life Has Taught Them Never Fail To Keep The Attention Of Their Listeners.

If You Argue And Rankle And Contradict, You May Achieve A Victory Sometimes; But It Will Be An Empty Victory Because You Will Never Get Your Opponent's Good Will.

The Life Of Many A Person Could Probably Be Changed If Only Someone Would Make Him Feel Important.

Praise The Slightest Improvement And Praise Every Improvement. Be Hearty In Your Approbation And Lavish In Your Praise.

If We Merely Try To Impress People And Get People Interested In Us, We Will Never Have Many True, Sincere Friends. Friends, Real Friends, Are Not Made That Way.

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.

Don't Be Afraid Of Enemies Who Attack You. Be Afraid Of The Friends Who Flatter You.

Give Your Problem All The Thought You Possibly Can Before A Solution Is Reached. But When The Matter Is Settled And Over With, Worry Not At All.

Most Of The Important Things In The World Have Been Accomplished By People Who Have Kept On Trying When There Seemed To Be No Hope At All.

Take A Chance! All Life Is A Chance. The Man Who Goes Farthest Is Generally The One Who Is Willing To Do And Dare.

We Can't Win Friends With A Scowling Face And An Upbraiding Voice.

Talk To Someone About Themselves And They'll Listen For Hours.

Great Communication

Bitter Criticism Caused The Sensitive Thomas Hardy, One Of The Finest Novelists Ever To Enrich English Literature, To Give Up Forever The Writing Of Fiction. Criticism Drove Thomas Chatterton, The English Poet, To Suicide. . . . Any Fool Can Criticize, Condemn And Complain - And Most Fools Do. But It Takes Character And Self-control To Be Understanding And Forgiving.

Give Honest And Sincere Appreciation.

The World Is Filled With Interesting Things To Do. Don't Lead A Dull Life In Such A Thrilling World.

If We Rail And Kick Against It And Grow Bitter, We Won't Change The Inevitable; But We Will Change Ourselves. I Know. I Have Tried It. I Once Refused To Accept An Inevitable Situation With Which I Was Confronted. I Played The Fool And Railed Against It, And Rebelled. I Turned My Nights Into Hells Of Insomnia. I Brought Upon Myself Everything I Didn't Want. Finally, After A Year Of Self-torture, I Had To Accept What I Knew From The Outset I Couldn't Possible Alter.

One Of The Worst Features About Worrying Is That It Destroys Our Ability To Concentrate. When We Worry, Our Minds Jump Here And There And Everywhere, And We Lose All Power Of Decision. However, When We Force Ourselves To Face The Worst And Accept It Mentally, We Then Eliminate All Those Vague Imaginings And Put Ourselves In A Position In Which We Are Able To Concentrate On Our Problem.

When Dealing With People, Remember You Are Not Dealing With Creatures Of Logic, But Creatures Of Emotion.

So If You Aspire To Be A Good Conversationali St, Be An Attentive Listener. To Be Interesting, Be Interested. Ask Questions That Other Persons Will Enjoy Answering. Encourage Them To Talk About Themselves And Their Accomplishments

Arouse In The Other Person An Eager Want. He Who Can Do This Has The Whole World With Him. He Who Cannot Walks A Lonely Way.

One Of The Surest Ways Of Making A Friend And Influencing The Opinion Of Another Is To Give Consideration To [his Or Her] Opinion, Let [him Or Her] Sustain A Feeling Of Importance.

Patience And Perserverance Will Accomplish More In This World Than A Brilliant Dash. Remember That When Something Goes Wrong.

Let The Winds Of Enthusiasm Sweep Through You. Live Today With Gusto.

Live In The Moment

Nobody Is More Persuasive Than A Good Listener

The Essence Of All Art Is To Have Pleasure In Giving Pleasure.

Good Leaders Are Scarce; So I'm Following Myself.

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.

Why Prove To A Man He Is Wrong? Is That Going To Make Him Like You? Why Not Let Him Save Face? He Didn't Ask For Your Opinion. He Didn't Want It. Why Argue With Him? You Can't Win An Argument, Because If You Lose, You Lose It; And If You Win It, You Lose It. Why? You Will Feel Fine. But What About Him? You Have Made Him Feel Inferior, You Hurt His Pride, Insult His Intelligence, His Judgment, And His Self-respect, And He'll Resent Your Triumph. That Will Make Him Strike Back, But It Will Never Make Him Want To Change His Mind. A Man Convinced Against His Will Is Of The Same Opinion Still.

Everybody In The World Is Seeking Happiness - And There Is One Sure Way To Find It. That Is By Controlling Your Thoughts. Happiness Doesn't Depend On Outward Conditions. It Depends On Inner Conditions.

The Most Important Thing In Life Is Not Simply To Capitalize On Your Gains. Any Fool Can Do That. The Important Thing Is To Profit From Your Losses. That Requires Intelligence, And Makes The Difference Between A Man Of Sense And A Fool.

Looking At The Other Person's Point Of View And Arousing In Him An Eager Want For Something Is Not To Be Construed As Manipulating That Person So That He Will Do Something That Is Only For Your Benefit And His Detriment. Each Party Should Gain From The Negotiation.

Try Honest To See Things From The Other Person's Point Of View.

In Order To Make Friends You Must First Be Friendly

When Ill Luck Besets Us, To Ease The Tension We Have Only To Remember That Happiness Is Relative. The Next Time You Are Tempted To Grumble About What Has Happened To You, Why Not Pause And Be Glad That It Is No Worse Than It Is.

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. If You Don't Like Their Rules, Whose Would You Use?

A Boil On A Man's Neck Is More Important To Him Than 40 Floods In India

Create Accomplishment From Disappointments. Demoralization And Disappointment Are Two Of The Surest Going Stones To Achievement.

Instead Of Condemning People, Let's Try To Understand Them. Let's Try To Figure Out Why They Do What They Do. That's A Lot More Profitable And Intriguing Than Criticism; And It Breeds Sympathy, Tolerance And Kindness.

One Of The Most Tragic Things I Know About Human Nature Is That All Of Us Tend To Put Off Living.

Procrastination

Applause Is A Receipt, Not A Bill.

My Popularity, My Happiness And Sense Of Worth Depend To No Small Extent Upon My Skill In Dealing With People.

He Who Treads Softly Goes Far.

There Are Four Ways, And Only Four Ways, In Which We Have Contact With The World. We Are Evaluated And Classified By These Four Contacts: What We Do, How We Look, What We Say, And How We Say It.

Inaction Breeds Doubt And Fear. Action Breeds Confidence And Courage.

Don't Be Afraid To Give Your Best To What Seemingly Are Small Jobs. Every Time You Conquer One It Makes You That Much Stronger. If You Do The Little Jobs Well, The Big Ones Will Tend To Take Care Of Themselves.

To Be Interesting, Be Interested.

Make A Man Laugh A Good Hearty Laugh, And You've Paved The Way For Friendship. When A Man Laughs With You, He, To Some Extent, Likes You.

If You Want To Conquer Fear, Don't Sit Home And Think About It. Go Out And Get Busy.

There Is One All-important Law Of Human Conduct. If We Obey That Law, We Shall Almost Never Get Into Trouble. In Fact, That Law, If Obeyed, Will Bring Us Countless Friends And Constant Happiness. But The Very Instant We Break The Law, We Shall Get Into Endless Trouble. The Law Is This: Always Make The Other Person Feel Important.

If We Want To Find Happiness, Let's Stop Thinking About Gratitude Or Ingratitude And Give For The Inner Joy Of Giving.

The Man Who Starts Out Going Nowhere, Generally Gets There.

If You Got It, Ask Yourself Why And Try To Repeat The Action. If You Failed, Ask Yourself Why And Try To Learn From The Experience.

George Bernard Shaw Was Right. He Summed It All Up When He Said: "the Secret Of Being Miserable Is To Have The Leisure To Bother About Whether You Are Happy Or Not." So Don't Bother To Think About It! Spit On Your Hands And Get Busy. Your Blood Will Start Circulating; Your Mind Will Start Ticking-and Pretty Soon This Whole Positive Upsurge Of Life In Your Body Will Drive Worry From Your Mind. Get Busy. Keep Busy. It's The Cheapest Kind Of Medicine There Is On This Earth-and One Of The Best.

Stop And Look Out The Window And See How Beautiful The World Is. It Is There-enjoy It. Go Out Tonight And Look Up At The Stars. They Are The Wonders Of Nature

Success In Dealing With People Depends On Sympathetic Grasp Of The Other Person's Viewpoint.

Do You Know The Most Important Trait A Man Can Have? It Is Not Executive Ability; It Is Not A Great Mentality; It Is Not Kindliness, Nor Courage, Nor A Sense Of Humor, Though Each Of These Is Of Tremendous Importance. In My Opinion, It Is The Ability To Make Friends, Which, Boiled Down, Means The Ability To See The Best In Man.

The Very Best Way In All The World To Overcome Self-consciousn Ess And Shyness Is To Get Interested In Other People And To Think Of Them And, Almost Miraculously, Your Timidity Will Pass. Do Something For Other People. Practice Deeds Of Kindness, Acts Of Friendliness, And You'll Be Surprised To See What Happens.

...be Grateful For What You Have To Be Thankful For Instead Of Complaining About The Little Things That Annoy You.

The Only Way To Get The Best Of An Argument Is To Avoid It.

Let's Cease Thinking Of Our Accomplishments, Our Wants. Let's Try To Figure Out The Other Man's Good Points. Then Forget Flattery. Give Honest, Sincere Appreciation. Be Hearty In Your Approbation And Lavish In Your Praise, And People Will Cherish Your Words And Treasure Them And Repeat Them Over A Lifetime - Repeat Them Years After You Have Forgotten Them.

Take A Chance! All Life Is A Chance

Overcoming Addiction

I've Found That Worry And Irritation Vanish Into Thin Air The Moment I Open My Mind To The Many Blessings I Possess.

Use Encouragement. Make The Fault Seem Easy To Correct.

When We Have Accepted The Worst, We Have Nothing More To Lose. And That Automatically Means We Have Everything To Gain.

We Move Toward What We Picture In Our Minds.

What Is The Answer To This Fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn To Relax While You Are Doing Your Work!

By Fighting You Never Get Enough, But By Yielding You Get More Than You Expected.

When You Face A Problem, Solve It Then And There If You Have The Facts Necessary To Make A Decision. Don't Keep Putting Off Decisions.

I Deal With The Obvious. I Present, Reiterate, And Glorify The Obvious - Because The Obvious Is What People Need To Be Told.

Forget Yourself By Becoming Interested In Others. Do Every Day A Good Deed That Will Put A Smile Of Joy On Someone's Face.

Remember That Other People May Be Totally Wrong. But They Don't Think So. Don't Condemn Them. Any Fool Can Do That. Try To Understand Them. Only Wise, Tolerant, Exceptional People Even Try To Do That.

Enthusiasm Is The Dynamics Of Your Personality. Without It, Whatever Abilities You May Possess Lie Dormant; And It Is Safe To Say That Nearly Every Man Has More Latent Power Than He Ever Learns To Use. You May Have Knowledge, Sound Judgment, Good Reasoning Faculties; But No One-not Even Yourself-will Know It Until You Discover How To Put Your Heart Into Thought And Action.

When We Have A Brilliant Idea, Instead Of Making Others Think It Is Ours, Why Not Let Them Cook And Stir The Idea Themselves.

This Is The Only Chance You Will Ever Have On Earth With This Exciting Adventure Called Life. So Why Not Plan It, And Try To Live It As Richly, As Happily As Possible?

Names Are The Sweetest And Most Important Sound In Any Language.

Let's Find And Remedy All Our Weaknesses Before Our Enemies Get A Chance To Say A Word. That Is What Charles Darwin Did. ...when Darwin Completed The Manuscript Of His Immortal Book "the Origin Of Species" He Realized That The Publication Of His Revolutionary Concept Of Creation Would Rock The Intellectual And Religious Worlds. So He Became His Own Critic And Spent Another 15 Years Checking His Data, Challenging His Reasoning, And Criticizing His Conclusions.

The Successful Man Will Profit From His Mistakes And Try Again In A Different Way.

Unjust Criticism Is Usually Disguised Compliment. It Often Means That You Have Aroused Jealously And Envy. Remember That No One Ever Kicks A Dead Log.

Unjust Criticism

I Once Succumbed To The Fad Of Fasting And Went For Six Days And Nights Without Eating. It Wasn't Difficult. I Was Less Hungry At The End Of The Sixth Day Than I Was At The End Of The Second. Yet I Know, As You Know, People Who Would Think They Had Committed A Crime If They Let Their Families Or Employees Go For Six Days Without Food; But They Will Let Them Go For Six Days, And Six Weeks, And Sometimes Sixty Years Without Giving Them The Hearty Appreciation That They Crave Almost As Much As They Crave Food.

An Argument Would Have Begun To Steam And Boil And Sputter - And You Know How Arguments End. Even If I Had Convinced Him That He Was Wrong, His Pride Would Have Made It Difficult For Him To Back Down And Give In.

Your Purpose Is To Make Your Audience See What You Saw, Hear What You Heard, Feel What You Felt.

Let Us Not Get So Busy Or Live So Fast That We Can't Listen To The Music Of The Meadow Or The Symphony That Glorifies The Forest. Some Things In The World Are Far More Important Than Wealth; One Of Them Is The Ability To Enjoy Simple Things.

Any Fool Can Try To Defend His Or Her Mistakes- And Most Fools Do- But It Raises One Above The Herd And Gives One A Feeling Of Nobility And Exultation To Admit One's Mistakes.

Flaming Enthusiasm, Backed Up By Horse Sense And Persistence, Is The Quality That Most Frequently Makes For Success.

If We Think Happy Thoughts, We Will Be Happy. If We Think Miserable Thoughts, We Will Be Miserable.

Each Nation Feels Superior To Other Nations. That Breeds Patriotism - And Wars.

We Can All Endure Disaster And Tragedy, And Triumph Over Them-if We Have To. We May Not Think We Can, But We Have Surprisingly Strong Inner Resources That Will See Us Through If We Will Only Make Use Of Them. We Are Stronger Than We Think.

If You Believe In What You Are Doing, Then Let Nothing Hold You Up In Your Work.

Most Of Us Have Far More Courage Than We Ever Dreamed We Possessed.

Don't You Have Much More Faith In Ideas That You Discover For Yourself Than In Ideas That Are Handed To You On A Silver Platter?

Give The Other Person A Fine Reputation To Live Up To.

Everyday Is A New Life To A Wise Man.

A Talk Is A Voyage. It Must Be Charted. The Speaker Who Starts Nowhere, Usually Gets There.

Public Speaking

Personally I Am Very Fond Of Strawberries And Cream, But I Have Found That For Some Strange Reason, Fish Prefer Worms. So When I Went Fishing, I Didn’t Think About What I Wanted. I Thought About What They Wanted. I Didn't Bait The Hook With Strawberries And Cream. Rather, I Dangled A Worm Or Grasshopper In Front Of The Fish And Said: "wouldn't You Like To Have That?" Why Not Use The Same Common Sense When Fishing For People?

This Is A Hurried Age We're Living In. If You've Got Anything To Say, Say It Quickly, Get To The Point And Stop, And Give The Other Man A Chance To Talk.

Believe That You Will Succeed, And You Will.

You Can Sing Only What You Are. You Can Paint Only What You Are. You Must Be What Your Experiences, Your Environment, And Your Heredity Have Made You. For Better Or For Worse, You Must Play Your Own Little Instrument In The Orchestra Of Life.

It Never Hurts A Fool To Appear Before An Audience, For His Capacity Is Not A Capacity For Feeling.

By Talking To Yourself About The Things You Have To Be Grateful For You Can Fill Your Mind With Thoughts That Soar And Sing.

Our Trouble Is Not Ignorance, But Inaction.

I Tend To Think Shorts Are Too Casual That's Just Not Businesslike.

Nothing Else So Inspires And Heartens People As Words Of Appreciation. You And I May Soon Forger The Words Of Encouragement And Appreciation That We Utter Now, But The Person To Whom We Have Spoken Them May Treasure Them And Repeat Them To Themselves Over A Lifetime

Your Smile Is A Messenger Of Your Goodwill.

Criticism Is Dangerous, Because It Wounds A Person's Precious Pride, Hurt His Sense Of Importace And Arouse Resentment.

Do You Remember The Things You Were Worrying About A Year Ago? How Did They Work Out? Didn't You Waste A Lot Of Fruitless Energy On Account Of Most Of Them? Didn't Most Of Them Turn Out All Right After All?

If You Are Wrong, Admit It Quickly And Emphatically.

Influencing People

Win Friends And Influence People

Talk In Terms Of The Other Person's Interests.

Confusion Is The Main Cause Of Worry

I Really Like Reading Books

I Can Look Back At My Own Life And See Where A Few Words Of Praise Have Sharply Changed My Entire Future. Can't You Say The Same Thing About Your Life?

Practice, Practice, Practice In Speaking Before An Audience Will Tend To Remove All Fear Of Audiences, Just As Practice In Swimming Will Lead To Confidence And Facility In The Water. You Must Learn To Speak By Speaking.

Appreciation Is The Legal Tender That All Souls Enjoy.

When I Asked Him -mr.henry Ford- If He Ever Worried, He Replied: "no. I Believe God Is Managing Affairs And That He Doesn't Need Any Advice From Me. With God In Charge, I Believe That Every-thing Will Work Out For The Best In The End. So What Is There To Worry About?

Why Talk About What We Want? That Is Childish. Absurd. Of Course, You Are Interested In What You Want. You Are Eternally Interested In It. But No One Else Is. The Rest Of Us Are Just Like You: We Are Interested In What We Want.

Enthusiasm Is That Ingredient Of Vitality Mixed With A Firm Belief In What You Are Doing That Ensures The Success Of Any Project You Undertake.

Don't Be Afraid To Give Your Best To What Seemingly Are Small Jobs.

The Royal Road To A Man's Heart Is To Talk To Him About The Things He Treasures Most.

Those Convinced Against Their Will Are Of The Same Opinion Still.

No One Likes To Feel That He Or She Is Being Sold Some-thing Or Told To Do A Thing. We Much Prefer To Feel That We Are Buying Of Our Own Accord Or Acting On Our Own Ideas. We Like To Be Consulted About Our Wishes, Our Wants, Our Thoughts.

Criticism Of Others Is Futile And If You Indulge In It Often You Should Be Warned That It Can Be Fatal To Your Career.

Pay Less Attention To What Men Say. Just Watch What They Do.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Develop Success From Failures. Discouragement And Failure Are Two Of The Surest Stepping Stones To Success.

If You Believe In What You Are Doing, Then Let Nothing Hold You Up In Your Work. Much Of The Best Work Of The World Has Been Done Against Seeming Impossibilities. The Thing Is To Get The Work Done.

The Man Who Grasps An Opportunity As It Is Paraded Before Him, Nine Times Out Of Ten Makes A Success, But The Man Who Makes His Own Opportunities Is, Barring An Accident, A Sure-fire Success

Good Speakers Usually Find When They Finish That There Have Been Four Versions Of The Speech: The One They Delivered, The One They Prepared, The One The Newspapers Say Was Delivered, And The One On The Way Home They Wish They Had Delivered.

Criticisms Are Like Homing Pigeons. They Always Return Home.

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.

Today Is Life-the Only Life You Are Sure Of. Make The Most Of Today. Get Interested In Something. Shake Yourself Awake. Develop A Hobby. Let The Winds Of Enthusiasm Sweep Through You. Live Today With Gusto.

People Support A World They Helped Create.

Abilities Wither Under Criticism; They Blossom Under Encouragement.

The Difference Between A Grave And A Rut Are The Dimensions.

The Unvarnished Truth Is That Almost All The People You Meet Feel Themselves Superior To You In Some Way, And A Sure Way To Their Hearts Is To Let Them Realize In Some Subtle Way That You Recognize Their Importance, And Recognize It Sincerely.

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

Tell The Audience What You're Going To Say, Say It; Then Tell Them What You've Said.

Public Speaking

People Aren't Interested In You. They're Interested In Themselves

Develop Success From Failures. Discouragement And Failure Are Two Of The Surest Steppingstones To Success. No Other Element Can Do So Much For A Man If He Is Willing To Study Them And Make Capital Out Of Them. Look Backward. Can't You See Where Your Failures Have Helped You?

People Say I'm Cocky, But Am I Supposed To Sit Here And Be Insecure And Not Know Where My Future's Going Or Not Realize That Moviemaking Is The Greatest Thing To Happen To Me?

Develop Success From Failures.

Instead Of Worrying About What People Say Of You, Why Not Spend Time Trying To Accomplish Something They Will Admire.

We Talk A Lot About The Importance Of Physical Exercise To Wake Us Up Out Of The Half Sleep In Which So Many Of Us Walk Around. But We Need, Even More, Some Spiritual And Mental Exercises Every Morning To Stir Us Into Action. Give Yourself A Pep Talk Every Day.

If You Want To Keep Happiness , You Have To Share It !

Do The Very Best You Can.

Only The Prepared Speaker Deserves To Be Confident.

Public Speaking

One Of The Most Appalling Comments On Our Present Way Of Life Is That At One Time Half Of All The Beds In Our Hospitals Were Reserved For Patients With Nervous And Mental Troubles, Patients Who Had Collapsed Under The Crushing Burden Of Accumulated Yesterdays And Fearful Tomorrows. Yet A Vast Majority Of Those People Would Be Walking The Streets Today, Leading Happy, Useful Lives — If They Had Only Heeded The Words Of Jesus: “have No Anxiety About The Morrow”; Or The Words Of Sir William Osler: "live In Day-tight Compartments."

Always Avoid The Acute Angle.

Much Of The Best Work Of The World Has Been Done Against Seeming Impossibilities.

'when You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade.' That Is What A Great Educator Does. But The Fool Does The Exact Opposite. If He Finds That Life Has Handed Him A Lemon, He Gives Up And Says, 'i 'm Beaten. It Is Fate. I Haven't Got A Chance.' Then He Proceeds To Rail Against The World And Indulge In An Orgy Of Self-pity .

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.

Be A Balanced Optimist. Nobody Is Suggesting That You Become An Oblivious Pollyanna, Pretending That Nothing Bad Can Or Ever Will Happen. Doing So Can Lead To Poor Decisions And Invites People To Take Advantage Of You. Instead, Be A Rational Optimist Who Takes The Good With The Bad, In Hopes Of The Good Ultimately Outweighing The Bad, And With The Understanding That Being Pessimistic About Everything Accomplishes Nothing. Prepare For The Worst But Hope For The Best - The Former Makes You Sensible, And The Latter Makes You An Optimist.

Accomplish Nothing

If You Increase Your Success By Even A Mere 10 Percent, You Have Become 10 Percent More Effective As A Leader Than You Were Before.

Let's Fight For Our Happiness By Following A Daily Program Of Cheerful And Constructive Thinking.

Try To Fix Firmly In Your Mind What You Would Like To Do; And Then, Without Veering Off Direction, You Will Move Straight To The Goal.

Today Is Life-the Only Life You Are Sure Of. Make The Most Of Today.

Live In The Moment

There Is Only One Way Under High Heaven To Get Anybody To Do Anything. Did You Ever Stop To Think Of That? Yes, Just One Way. And That Is By Making The Other Person Want To Do It.

In A Nutshell - Fundamental Techniques In Handling People; Principle 1 - Don't Criticize, Condemn Or Complain; Principle 2 - Give Honest And Sincere Appreciation; Principle 3 - Arouse In The Other Person An Eager Want.

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Patrick Dempsey

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