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Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Dale Carnegie

If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.
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Compassionate Forget Kindness Remember Yourself
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
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Chance Debate Listening Resistance Talk Understand
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Art Essence Happiness Pleasure
It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude.
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Attitude Mental Tired Work Yourself
So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, 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.
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Accomplishment Aspiration Attention Conversation Goodness Listening Person Yourself
Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
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Change Ideas Mindset Open Opinion Progress Yourself
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.
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Friendship Interest People Yourself
When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.
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Acceptance Lose Worst Yourself
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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Empathy Quick Wrong
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Argument Avoid Best Way
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.
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Condition Control Happiness Listening Seek Thinking World Yourself
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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Happiness Success Yourself
Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.
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Generosity Karma Life True Yourself
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
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Acceptance Improvement Preparation Worst Yourself
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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Engagement Person Process Yourself
Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.
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Action Attention Observation Watch Word Yourself

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

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