“People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.”

The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

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.

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

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

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.

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.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

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.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

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.

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.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

What is the why behind everything you do?

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

You don’t want to get to the top of the ladder only to find out you had it leaning up against the wrong wall.

To be and to have meaning are the same.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.