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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Dale Carnegie

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
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Attention Interest Oneself People Time Win
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
Believe you will be successful and you will.
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Believe Success Willing 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
It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude.
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Attitude Mental Tired Work Yourself
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Art Essence Happiness Pleasure
Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.
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Face Fear Yourself
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
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Improvement Profit Try 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
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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Accomplishment Hope Important World
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
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
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
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Advice Caution Let Go Yourself
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
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Listening Talk Time
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.
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Happiness Thinking Yourself

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