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Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.

Dale Carnegie

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
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
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Improvement Profit Try Yourself
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
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Action Ignorance Ourselves Trouble
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
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
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
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Fun People Rare
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
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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Achievement Success Yourself
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.
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Advantage Competition Individual People Rare Seek World
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
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Future Past Remember Worry Yourself
Don’t ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time
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Himself Important Man Time
If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.
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Compassionate Forget Kindness Remember Yourself
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
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
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
Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
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Encouragement Goodness Listening Talk
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
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Advice Caution Let Go 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
Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
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Change Ideas Mindset Open Opinion Progress Yourself
If we speak poorly about that which we do well, people will assume we perform poorly!
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Action Assumption Ourselves Poor Talk
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Development Encouragement Failure Success
Everyday is a new life to a wise man.
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Day Life Man Wisdom
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Argument Avoid Best Way
Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.
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Attitude Cash Enthusiasm Money Sales
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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