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

Dale Carnegie

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
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Criticism Dangerous Hurt Important Person Pride
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.
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Advantage Competition Individual People Rare Seek World
The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.
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Change Feeling Important Life Person
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.
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People Remember Tolerance Try Understand Wrong
If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.
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Conversation Goodness Interest Listening 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
It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude.
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Attitude Mental Tired Work Yourself
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.
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Development Help Interest Mindset People Principle
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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Frustration Resentment Work Worry
if you want to keep happiness, you have to share it!
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Happiness Share Yourself
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
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Advice Caution Let Go Yourself
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.
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Break Face Live See Smile Sun Yourself
Take a chance! All life is a chance
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Chance Life One Liner
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
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Circumstance Determination Feeling Ourselves Reaction
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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Chance Dare Life Man Risk Willing Yourself
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.
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Believe Hold Work Yourself

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