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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?

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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?

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Believe You Will Be Successful And You Will.

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When Two Partners Always Agree, One Of Them Is Not Necessary." If There Is Some Point You Haven't Thought About, Be Thankful If It Is Brought To Your Attention.

By All Means Take Thought For The Tomorrow, Yes, Careful Thought And Planning And Preparation. But Have No Anxiety.

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.

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

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

Do The Thing You Fear To Do And Keep On Doing It... That Is The Quickest And Surest Way Ever Yet Discovered To Conquer Fear.

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.

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

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?

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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.

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

If You Want To Develop Courage, Do The Thing You Fear And Keep On Doing It Until You Have A Record Of Successful Experiences Behind You. That Is The Quickest And Surest Way Ever Yet Discovered To Conquer Fear. 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.

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

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.

Every Day I Pray. I Yield Myself To God And The Tensions And Anxieties Go Out Of Me And Peace And Power Come In.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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Hurting A Man In His Dignity Is A Crime.

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

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.

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.

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

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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?

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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?

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

Don't Fuss About Trifles. Don't Permit Little Things-the Mere Termites Of Life-to Ruin Your Happiness.

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Get The Facts. Let's Not Even Attempt To Solve Our Problems Without First Collecting All The Facts In An Impartial Manner.

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To Be Interesting, Be Interested.

John Wanamaker, Founder Of The Stores That Bear His Name, Once Confessed: "i Learned Thirty Years Ago That It Is Foolish To Scold. I Have Enough Trouble Overcoming My Own Limitations Without Fretting Over The Fact That God Has Not Seen Fit To Distribute Evenly The Gift Of Intelligence.

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

Live In The Moment

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.

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

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Nobody Is More Persuasive Than A Good Listener

The Sure-thing Boat Never Gets Far From Shore.

Will And Determination

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When We Are Not Engaged In Thinking About Some Definite Problem, We Usually Spend About 95 Percent Of Our Time Thinking About Ourselves. Now, If We Stop Thinking About Ourselves For A While And Begin To Think Of The Other Person's Good Points, We Won't Have To Resort To Flattery So Cheap And False That It Can Be Spotted Almost Before It Is Out Of The Mouth.

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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?

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

Everyday Is A New Life To A Wise Man.

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Accomplish Nothing

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Having A Good Time

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Unjust Criticism

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The Value Of A Smile... It Costs Nothing, But Creates Much. It Enriches Those Who Receive, Without Impoverishing Those Who Give. It Happens In A Flash And The Memory Of It Sometimes Lasts Forever. None Are So Rich They Can Get Along Without It, And None So Poor But Are Richer For Its Benefits. It Creates Happiness In The Home, Fosters Good Will In A Business, And Is The Countersign Of Friends.

Ask Questions Instead Of Giving Direct Orders.

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.

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.

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

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

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

When Theodore Roosevelt Was In The White House, He Confessed That If He Could Be Right 75 Percent Of The Time, He Would Reach The Highest Measure Of His Expectation. . . . If That Was The Highest Rating That One Of The Most Distinguished Men Of The Twentieth Century Could Hope To Obtain, What About You And Me?

If You And I Want To Stir Up A Resentment Tomorrow That May Rankle Across The Decades And Endure Until Death, Just Let Us Indulge In A Little Stinging Criticism - No Matter How Certain We Are That It Is Justified.

Arouse In The Other Person An Eager Want.

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

Close Your Eyes. You Might Try Saying. . . Something Like This: "the Sun Is Shining Overhead. The Sky Is Blue And Sparkling. Nature Is Calm And In Control Of The World-and I, As Nature's Child, Am In Tune With The Universe." Or-better Still-pray!

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.

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

You Are Merely Not Feeling Equal To The Tasks Before You.

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.

In Fact, Merely Writing The Facts On A Piece Of Paper And Stating Our Problem Clearly Goes A Long Way Toward Helping Us To Reach A Sensible Decision.

...the Best Possible Way To Prepare For Tomorrow Is To Concentrate With All Your Intelligence, All Your Enthusiasm, On Doing Today's Work Superbly Today. That Is The Only Possible Way You Can Prepare For The Future.

You Can Make More Friends In Two Months By Becoming Interested In Other People Than You Can In Two Years By Trying To Get Other People Interested In You.

Applause Is A Receipt, Not A Bill.

So, To Prevent Fatigue And Worry, The First Rule Is: Rest Often. Rest Before You Get Tired.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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

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

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

In Order To Make Friends You Must First Be Friendly

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

Begin With Praise And Honest Appreciation. Call Attention To People's Mistakes Indirectly. Talk About Your Own Mistakes Before Criticizing The Other Person. Ask Questions Instead Of Giving Direct Orders. Make The Fault Easy To Correct. Make The Other Person Happy About Doing What You Suggest.

Psychiatrists Declare That Most Of Our Fatigue Derives From Our Mental And Emotional Attitudes... What Kinds Of Emotional Factors Tire The Sedentary (or Sitting) Worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, Resentment, A Feeling Of Not Being Appreciated, A Feeling Of Futility, Hurry, Anxiety, Worry-those Are The Emotional Factors That Exhaust The Sitting Worker, Make Him Susceptible To Colds, Reduce His Output, And Send Him Home With A Nervous Headache. Yes, We Get Tired Because Our Emotions Produce Nervous Tensions In The Body.

People Like People Who Help Them Like Themselves.

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.

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

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.

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

Tell A Child, A Husband Or An Employee That He Is Stupid Or Dumb At A Certain Thing, That He Has No Gift For It, And That He Is Doing It All Wrong And You Have Destroyed Almost Every Incentive To Try To Improve. But Use The Opposite Technique, Be Liberal With Encouragement; Make The Thing Seem Easy To Do, Let The Other Person Know That You Have Faith In His Ability To Do It, That He Has An Undeveloped Flair For It - And He Will Practice Until The Dawn Comes In At The Window In Order To Excel.

You Can Measure The Size Of A Person By What Makes Him Or Her Angry

Self Improvement

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

You Can't Win An Argument. You Can't Because If You Lose It, You Lose It; And If You Win It, You Lose It.

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

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

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

When Fate Hands You A Lemon, Make Lemonade.

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Two Men Looked Out From Prison Bars, One Saw The Mud, The Other Saw Stars.

When The Fierce, Burning Winds Blow Over Our Lives-and We Cannot Prevent Them-let Us, Too, Accept The Inevitable. And Then Get Busy And Pick Up The Pieces.

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

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.

Monotony Reveals Our Limitations.

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.

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

Success Is Getting What You Want. Happiness Is Wanting What You Get.

Flattery Is Telling The Other Person Precisely What He Thinks About Himself.

An Effective Speaker Knows That The Success Or Failure Of His Talk Is Not For Him To Decide - It Will Be Decided In The Minds And Hearts Of His Hearers.

Public Speaking

Be A Good Listener. Encourage Others To Talk About Themselves.

Influencing People

There Is No Such Thing As Constructive Criticism.

Constructive Criticism

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

If We Want To Make Friends, Let's Greet People With Animation And Enthusiasm.

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.

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

I Know Men And Women Can Banish Worry, Fear And Various Kinds Of Illnesses, And Can Transform Their Lives By Changing Their Thoughts. I Know! I Know! I Know! I Have Seen Such Incredible Transformations Performed Hundreds Of Times. I Have Seen Them So Often That I No Longer Wonder At Them.

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.

When We Hate Our Enemies, We Are Giving Them Power Over Us: Power Over Our Sleep, Our Appetites, Our Blood Pressure, Our Health And Our Happiness. Our Enemies Would Dance With Joy If Only They Knew How They Were Worrying Us, Lacerating Us, And Getting Even With Us! Our Hate Is Not Hurting Them At Al, But Our Hate Is Turning Our Days And Nights Into A Hellish Turmoil.

People Who Talk Only Of Themselves Think Only Of Themselves.

There Is A Certain Degree Of Satisfaction In Having The Courage To Admit One's Errors. It Not Only Clears Up The Air Of Guilt And Defensiveness, But Often Helps Solve The Problem Created By The Error

I Realize Now That People Are Not Thinking About You And Me Or Caring What Is Said About Us. They Are Thinking About Themselves-before Breakfast, After Breakfast, And Right On Until Ten Minutes Past Midnight. They Would Be A Thousand Times More Concerned About A Slight Headache Of Their Own Than They Would About The News Of Your Death Or Mine.

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