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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.

Dale Carnegie

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Development Encouragement Failure Success
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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Awake Day Development Enthusiasm Interest Life 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
Don’t ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time
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Himself Important Man Time
Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint.
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Deal People Point Success View
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
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Correct Easy Encouragement Mistake
90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
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Communication Management Problem
Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
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Future Improvement Learning Mistake Progress Yourself
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
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Deep Happiness Person Praise Seek
I’ve found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
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Blessing Irritation Moments Posession Worry
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
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
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Encouragement Goodness Listening Talk
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
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
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Ability Criticism Encouragement
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
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Argument Avoid Best Way

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 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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