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The Trouble With Most Of Us Is That We Keep Our Eyes Closed To Opportunities That Thrust Themselves At Us; And Rare Is The Man Who Searches For His Opportunity Or Sees One Even When He Stumbles Over It.

-Dale Carnegie

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The Trouble With Most

Dale Carnegie

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The Trouble With Most Of Us Is That We Keep Our Eyes Closed To Opportunities That Thrust Themselves At Us; And Rare Is The Man Who Searches For His Opportunity Or Sees One Even When He Stumbles Over It.

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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.

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.

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Criticism Is Futile Because It Puts A Person On The Defensive And Usually Makes Them Strive To Justify Themselves. Criticism Is Dangerous, Because It Wounds A Person's Precious Pride, Hurts Their Sense Of Importance, And Arouses Resentment.

Thousands Of Salespeople Are Pounding The Pavements Today, Tired, Discouraged And Underpaid. Why? Because They Are Always Thinking Only Of What They Want. They Don't Realize That Neither You Nor I Want To Buy Anything. If We Did, We Would Go Out And Buy It. But Both Of Us Are Eternally Interested In Solving Our Problems. And If Salespeople Can Show Us How Their Services Or Merchandise Will Help Us Solve Our Problems, They Won't Need To Sell Us. We'll Buy. And Customers Like To Feel That They Are Buying - Not Being Sold.

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Check Up Each Week On The Progress You Are Making. Ask Yourself What Mistakes You Have Made, What Improvement, What Lessons You Have Learned For The Future.

Everyday Is A New Life To A Wise Man.

Self-expression Is The Dominant Necessity Of Human Nature.

Let's Fill Our Minds With Thoughts Of Peace, Courage, Health, And Hope, For "our Life Is What Our Thoughts Make It."

First Ask Yourself: What Is The Worst That Can Happen? Then Prepare To Accept It. Then Proceed To Improve On The Worst.

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

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

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We All Have Possibilities We Don't Know About. We Can Do Things We Don't Even Dream We Can Do. It's Only When Necessity Faces Us That We Rise To The Occasion And Actually Do The Things That Hitherto Have Seemed Impossible.

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Advertising. The Movies Do It. Tv Does It. Why Don't You Do It?

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

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

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

Don't Ask A Man What Is Important To Him. Watch How He Spends His Time

There Is A Reason Why The Other Man Thinks And Acts As He Does. Ferret Out That Reason — And You Have The Key To His Actions, Perhaps To His Personality. Try Honestly To Put Yourself In His Place.

You Can Conquer Almost Any Fear If You Will Only Make Up Your Mind To Do So. For Remember, Fear Doesn't Exist Anywhere Except In The Mind.

If You Are Wrong, Admit It Quickly And Emphatically.

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If Some People Are So Hungry For A Feeling Of Importance That They Actually Go Insane To Get It, Imagine What Miracle You And I Can Achieve By Giving People Honest Appreciation This Side Of Insanity.

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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.

Men Of Age Object Too Much, Consult Too Long, Adventure Too Little, Repent Too Soon, And Seldom Drive Business Home To The Full Period, But Content Themselves With A Mediocrity Of Success.

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.

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

The Ability To Speak Well Is The Shortcut To Distinction.

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Remember, Today Is The Tomorrow You Worried About Yesterday.

Only The Prepared Speaker Deserves To Be Confident.

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Our Fatigue Is Often Caused Not By Work, But By Worry, Frustration And Resentment.

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

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.

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Try Leaving A Trail Of Little Sparks Of Gratitude On Your Daily Trips. You Will Be Surprised How They Will Set Small Flames Of Friendship That Will Be Rose Beacons On Your Next Visit.

Anyone Can Do His Work, However Hard, For One Day. Anyone Can Live Sweetly, Patiently, Lovingly, Purely, Till The Sun Goes Down. And This Is All That Life Really Means.

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.

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?

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.

Praise Is Like Sunlight To The Warm Human Spirit; We Cannot Flower And Grow Without It. And Yet, While Most Of Us Are Only Too Ready To Apply To Others The Cold Wind Of Criticism, We Are Somehow Reluctant To Give Our Fellow The Warm Sunshine Of Praise.

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.

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.

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

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?

A Good Deed, "said The Prophet Mohammed, "is One That Brings A Smile Of Joy To The Face Of Another." Why Will Doing A Good Deed Every Day Produce Such Astounding Efforts On The Doer? Because Trying To Please Others Will Cause Us To Stop Thinking Of Ourselves: The Very Thing That Produces Worry And Fear And Melancholia.

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

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

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.

Let's Not Imitate Others.let's Find Ourselves And Be Ourselves.

The Biggest Lesson I Have Learned Is The Stupendous Importance Of What We Think. If I Knew What You Think, I Would Know What You Are, For Your Thoughts Make You What You Are; By Changing Our Thoughts, We Can Change Our Lives.

Appreciation Is The Legal Tender That All Souls Enjoy.

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

People Like People Who Help Them Like Themselves.

People Who Talk Only Of Themselves Think Only Of Themselves.

Develop Success From Failures.

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

Procrastination

I Really Like Reading Books

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

If You Want To Be Happy, Set Yourself A Goal That Commands Your Thoughts, Liberates Your Energy And Inspires Your Hopes. Happiness Is Within You. It Comes From Doing Some Certain Thing Into Which You Can Put All Your Thought And Energy. If You Want To Be Happy, Get Enthusiastic About Something.

Your Thoughts Make You What You Are; By Changing Our #‎ Thoughts We Can Change Our Lives.

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

Fear Is The Result Of A Lack Of Confidence. A Lack Of Confidence Is The Result Of Not Knowing What You Can Do. A Lack Of Knowing What You Can Do Is Caused By A Lack Of Experience. A Lack Of Experience Is Caused By A Lack Of Doing Something New.

Would You Sell Both Your Eyes For A Million Dollars...or Your Two Legs...or Your Hands...or Your Hearing? Add Up What You Do Have, And You'll Find You Won't Sell Them For All The Gold In The World. The Best Things In Life Are Yours, If You Can Appreciate Them.

Once I Did Bad And That I Heard Ever. Twice I Did Good, But That I Heard Never.

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

Mental Attitude

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

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

Learning Is An Active Process. We Learn By Doing.. Only Knowledge That Is Used Sticks In Your Mind.

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.

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

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.

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

Public Speaking

Applause Is A Receipt, Not A Bill.

When The Friendly Jailer Gave Socrates The Poison Cup To Drink, The Jailer Said: "try To Bear Lightly What Needs Must Be." Socrates Did. He Faced Death With A Calmness And Resignation That Touched The Hem Of Divinity.

The Sure-thing Boat Never Gets Far From Shore.

Will And Determination

Everyone Should Have A Deep-seated Interest Or Hobby To Enrich His Mind, Add Zest To Living, And Perhaps, Depending Upon What It Is, Result In A Service To His Country.

Act Enthusiastic And You Will Be Enthusiastic.

Enthusiasm For Life

Obviously, Circumstances Alone Do Not Make Us Happy Or Unhappy. It Is The Way We React To Circumstances That Determines Our Feelings. Jesus Said That The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Within You. That Is Where The Kingdom Of Hell Is, Too.

Flattery Is Counterfeit, And Like Counterfeit Money, It Will Eventually Get You Into Trouble If You Pass It To Someone Else.

Counterfeit Money

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

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.

The Only Way On Earth To Influence Other People Is To Talk About What They Want And Show Them How To Get It.

Are You Bored With Life? Then Throw Yourself Into Some Work You Believe In With All Your Heart, Live For It, Die For It, And You Will Find Happiness That You Had Thought Could Never Be Yours.

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

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.

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.

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

Let's Not Allow Ourselves To Be Upset By Small Things We Should Despise And Forget. Remember "life Is Too Short To Be Little".

Life Is Too Short

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

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.

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

There Is A Certain Degree Of Satisfaction In Having The Courage To Admit One's Errors.

Great Speakers Are Not Born, They're Trained.

Your Smile Brightens The Lives Of All Who See It.

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

Your Smile Brightens The Lives Of All Who See It. To Someone Who Has Seen A Dozen People Frown, Scowl Or Turn Their Faces Away, Your Smile Is Like The Sun Breaking Through The Clouds.

Monotony Reveals Our Limitations.

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.

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

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