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When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

Dale Carnegie

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
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
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
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Encouragement Goodness Listening Talk
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
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
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Development Encouragement Failure Success
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
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
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Bright Live See Smile Yourself
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
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
If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.
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Mistake Time Yourself
Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.
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Action Attention Observation Watch Word Yourself
Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.
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Follow Goodness Leadership Myself
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
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Busy Fear Home Thinking Yourself
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Future Past Remember Worry Yourself

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