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People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves.

Dale Carnegie

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
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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Condition Feeling Habit Possible Present Yourself
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
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
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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Believe Bored Death Heart Life Live Work Yourself
Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.
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Action Attention Observation Watch Word Yourself
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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Conquer Discover Fear Quick
Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
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Criticism Mistake Person Talk
Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.
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Attitude Charge Choice Yourself
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
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
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Listening Talk Time
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
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
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Afraid Best Care Job Small
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Development Encouragement Failure Success
The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
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Afraid Decision Defeat Fear Forget Hard Work Way

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