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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.

Dale Carnegie

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Classification Contact Evaluation Way World
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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Empathy Quick Wrong
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
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Love People Sympathy Thirst Yourself
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Different Himself Man Profit Success Way
Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.
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Enemy Hurt Ourselves Time Try Wasted Time
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
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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Accomplishment Admire People Worry Yourself
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.
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Blood Enemy Hate Ourselves Power Sleep
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
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
Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener.
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Goodness Listening Persuation
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Future Past Remember Worry 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
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
An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.
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Action Management Planning Save Time Yourself
Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.
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Attitude Cash Enthusiasm Money Sales
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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Happiness Impression Oneself Reason
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
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Improvement Profit Try 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. 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
90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
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Communication Management Problem
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Lying Sleep Worry Yourself
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
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Complaint Control Criticism Fools Forgiveness Understand
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
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
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Argument Avoid Best Way
Take a chance! All life is a chance
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Chance Life One Liner

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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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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