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Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

Dale Carnegie

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
If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.
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Mistake Time Yourself
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
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Improvement Profit Try Yourself
Believe you will be successful and you will.
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Believe Success Willing Yourself
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
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
So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Aspiration Attention Conversation Goodness Listening Person Yourself
Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
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Himself Lonely Person Walk Way World
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
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
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
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
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Exception Existence Fear Mindset
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Art Essence Happiness Pleasure
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.
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Break Face Live See Smile Sun 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
Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
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Listening Talk Time
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
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Apply Knowledge Power
The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don’t lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.
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Choice Interest Leadership Live World
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
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Bright Live See Smile Yourself
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
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Action Ignorance Ourselves Trouble
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
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Cherish Forget Kind Life Time Word 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
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Fun People Rare
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
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Advice Caution Let Go Yourself
An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.
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Action Management Planning Save Time Yourself
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

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