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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?

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When I Asked Him

Dale Carnegie

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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?

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

Be Honest, Look For Areas Where You Can Admit Error And Say So. Apologize For Your Mistakes. It Will Help Disarm Your Opponents And Reduce Defensiveness.

When Dealing With People, Let Us Remember That We Are Not Dealing With Creatures Of Logic. We Are Dealing With Creatures Of Emotion, Creatures Bristling With Prejudices And Motivated By Pride And Vanity. ...any Fool Can Criticize, Condemn, And Complain - And Most Fools Do. But It Takes Character And Self-control To Be Understanding And Forgiving.

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

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.

Great Speakers Are Not Born, They're Trained.

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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.

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.

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?

Your Smile Is A Messenger Of Your Goodwill.

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

Almost All The Progress Ever Made In Human Thought Has Been Made By The Doubting Thomas's, The Questioners, The Challengers, The Show-me Crowd.

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

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.

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.

If You Act Enthusiastic, You'll Be Enthusiastic!

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.

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.

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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.

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 Man Who Starts Out Going Nowhere, Generally Gets There.

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

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.

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

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?

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

All The King's Horses And All The King's Men Can't Put The Past Together Again. So Let's Remember: Don't Try To Saw Sawdust.

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.

Learn To Love, Respect And Enjoy Other People.

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.

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

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.

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

Self-expression Is The Dominant Necessity Of Human Nature.

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

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.

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.

Today Is The Only Time We Can Possibly Live.

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.

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

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

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.

A Ship In The Harbor Is Safe, But That Is Not What Ships Are Built For. Intelligence Is Like Underwear, Everyone Has It, But You Don't Have To Show It Off. The Expression A Woman Wears On Her Face Is More Important Than The Clothes She Wears On Her Back.

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.

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.

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All Art Is Autobiographical. You Can Only Create What You Are.

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Act Enthusiastic And You Will Be Enthusiastic.

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It Was This Desire For A Feeling Of Importance That Led An Uneducated, Poverty-stricken Grocery Clerk To Study Some Law Books He Found In The Bottom Of A Barrel Of Household Plunder That He Had Bought For Fifty Cents. You Have Probably Heard Of This Grocery Clerk. His Name Was Lincoln.

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Believe You Will Be Successful And You Will.

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If We Speak Poorly About That Which We Do Well... People Will Assume We Perform Poorly!

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.

When Fate Hands You A Lemon, Make Lemonade.

The Ability To Speak Well Is The Shortcut To Distinction.

Create Happiness For Others.

The Best Argument Is That Which Seems Merely An Explanation.

Confusion Is The Main Cause Of Worry

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.

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

Monotony Reveals Our Limitations.

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.

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

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

The Sure-thing Boat Never Gets Far From Shore.

Will And Determination

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.

Life Is Bigger Than Processes And Overflows And Dwarfs Them.

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.

Do You Know Someone You Would Like To Change And Regulate And Improve? Good! That Is Fine. I Am All In Favor Of It, But Why Not Begin On Yourself? From A Purely Selfish Standpoint, That Is A Lot More Profitable Than Trying To Improve Others - Yes, And A Lot Less Dangerous.

Knowledge Isn’t Power Until It Is Applied.

Give Honest And Sincere Appreciation.

I Want You To Think Of Your Life As An Hourglass. You Know There Are Thousands Of Grains Of Sand In The Top Of The Hourglass; And They All Pass Slowly And Evenly Through The Narrow Neck In The Middle. Nothing You Or I Could Do Would Make More Than One Grain Of Sand Pass Through This Narrow Neck Without Impairing The Hourglass. You And I And Everyone Else Are Like This Hourglass.

Our Trouble Is Not Ignorance, But Inaction.

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

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.

People Support A World They Helped Create.

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.

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

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

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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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

There Is No Such Thing As Constructive Criticism.

Constructive Criticism

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.

You Are Going To Survive. And Good Things Are Going To Start To Happen Again. And One Day You Are Going To Look Back And This Will Not Even Be Such A Bad Thing

There Is Only One Excuse For A Speaker's Asking The Attention Of His Audience: He Must Have Either Truth Or Entertainment For Them.

Fear Doesn't Exist Anywhere Except In The Mind.

For Better Or Worse, You Must Play Your Own Little Instrument In The Orchestra Of Life.

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

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.

Many People Think That If They Were Only In Some Other Place, Or Had Some Other Job, They Would Be Happy. Well, That Is Doubtful. So Get As Much Happiness Out Of What You Are Doing As You Can And Don't Put Off Being Happy Until Some Future Date.

Talk About Your Own Mistakes Before Criticizing The Other Person.

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

Three-fourths Of The People You Will Ever Meet Are Hungering And Thirsting For Sympathy. Give It To Them, And They Will Love You.

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

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

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.

If You Want To Be A Good Conversationalist, Be A Good Listener. To Be Interesting, Be Interested.

Good Conversation

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

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

We All Have Possibilities We Don't Know About. We Can Do Things We Don't Even Dream We Can Do.

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

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

Public Speaking

It Isn't What You Have, Or Who You Are, Or Where You Are, Or What You Are Doing That Makes You Happy Or Unhappy. It Is What You Think About.

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.

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

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

Five Hundred Years Before Christ Was Born, The Greek Philosopher Heraclitus Told His Students That "everything Changes Except The Law Of Change". He Said: "you Cannot Step In The Same River Twice." The River Changes Every Second; And So Does The Man Who Stepped In It. Life Is A Ceaseless Change. The Only Certainty Is Today. Why Mar The Beauty Of Living Today By Trying To Solve The Problems Of A Future That Is Shrouded In Ceaseless Change And Uncertainty-a Future That No One Can Possibly Foretell?

If You Want To Win Friends, Make It A Point To Remember Them. If You Remember My Name, You Pay Me A Subtle Compliment; You Indicate That I Have Made An Impression On You. Remember My Name And You Add To My Feeling Of Importance.

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.

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

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.

If You Do Something For Someone Else, Never Remember. If Someone Does Something For You, Never Forget.

Do The Hard Jobs First. The Easy Jobs Will Take Care Of Themselves.

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.

The Person Who Seeks All Their Applause From Outside Has Their Happiness In Another's Keeping .

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

Is Enthusiasm Important In Selling? Yes, Genuine, Heartfelt Enthusiasm Is One Of The Most Potent Factors Of Success In Almost Any Undertaking.

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

...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.

Remember That No One Ever Kicks A Dead Dog.

Believe That You Will Succeed, And You Will.

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.

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

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?

Winning Friends Begins With Friendliness.

Win Friends And Influence People

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

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

Influencing People

Naturalness Is The Easiest Thing In The World To Acquire, If You Will Forget Yourself-forget About The Impression You Are Trying To Make.

Neither You Nor I Nor Einstein Nor The Supreme Court Of The United States Is Brilliant Enough To Reach An Intelligent Decision On Any Problem Without First Getting The Facts

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

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

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.

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.

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

We Move Toward What We Picture In Our Minds.

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

Actions Speak Louder Than Words, And A Smile Says, ‘i Like You. You Make Me Happy. I Am Glad To See You.

You Make Me Happy

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

'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 .

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.

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

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.

You Make Me Happy

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.

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.

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

You Have It Easily In Your Power To Increase The Sum Total Of This World's Happiness Now. How? By Giving A Few Words Of Sincere Appreciation To Someone Who Is Lonely Or Discouraged. Perhaps You Will Forget Tomorrow The Kind Words You Say Today, But The Recipient May Cherish Them Over A Lifetime.

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

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.

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

Happiness Doesn't Depend On Any External Conditions, It Is Governed By Our Mental Attitude.

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.

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.

Be Sympathetic With The Other Person's Ideas And Desires.

Millions Of People Have Wrecked Their Lives In Angry Turmoil, Because They Refused To Accept The Worst; Refused To Try To Improve Upon It; Refused To Salvage What They Could From The Wreck. Instead Of Trying To Reconstruct Their Fortunes, They Engaged In A Bitter And "violent Contest With Experience"- And Ended Up Victims Of That Brooding Fixation Known As Melancholia.

No Matter What Happens, Always Be Yourself.

Always Be Yourself

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Good Conversation

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.

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

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

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.

Arouse In The Other Person An Eager Want.

Our Mental Attitude Is The X Factor That Determines Our Fate.

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.

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.

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.

Remember That Unjust Critisism Is Often A Disquised Compliment.

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.

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

Once You Have Made A Careful Decision Based On Facts, Go Into Action. Don't Stop To Reconsider. Don't Begin To Hesitate, Worry, And Retrace Your Steps. Don't Lose Yourself In Self-doubting Which Begets Other Doubts. Don't Keep Looking Back Over Your Shoulder.

Let The Other Person Save Face.

Win Friends And Influence People

Your Smile Brightens The Lives Of All Who See It.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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People Like People Who Help Them Like Themselves.

Flattery Is From The Teeth Out. Sincere Appreciation Is From The Heart Out.

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

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