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Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

Dale Carnegie

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
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Existence Fear Make Up Mindset Yourself
The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.
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Destination Journey Man Path Start
90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
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Communication Management Problem
Believe that you will succeed, and you will.
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Believe Inspirational Willing Yourself
Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
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Afraid Attack Enemy Friendship Praise Yourself
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
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
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Improvement Profit Try Yourself
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
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Advice Caution Let Go Yourself
You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.
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Age Beginning Time World 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
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
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
Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.
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Attitude Charge Choice Yourself
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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Creature Deal Emotion Logic People Yourself
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
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
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
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Apply Knowledge Power
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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Empathy Quick Wrong
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Fun People Rare
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
Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.
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Face Fear Yourself
An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.
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Action Management Planning Save Time Yourself
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
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Action Breed Confidence Doubt Fear
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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Frustration Resentment Work Worry
Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
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Active Knowledge Learning Mindset Yourself

Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

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