“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see 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.

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.

People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

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.

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.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

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.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

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.

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.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

There has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.

I stopped complaining about things I didn’t have, and poured gratitude for what I did. Life became lighter and more fulfilling. Desire didn’t hold onto me like it earlier did. Happiness filled in like light, and life started to feel like a blessing.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

Complaint is a prayer to the devil.

When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.