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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. (Dale Carnegie)
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A barber lathers a man before he shaves him. View quote
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When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. View quote
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. View quote
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... 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. View quote
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Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I? View quote
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criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment. View quote
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if you want to keep happiness, you have to share it ! (Dale Carnegie)
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? View quote
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Knowledge isn't power until it is applied. View quote
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No matter what happens, always be yourself. View quote
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory. View quote
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. (Dale Carnegie)
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. View quote
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