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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Dale Carnegie

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Argument Avoid Best Way
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
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
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
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
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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Awake Day Development Enthusiasm Interest Life Yourself
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
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Apply Knowledge Power
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
Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.
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Face Fear 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
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
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Complaint Control Criticism Fools Forgiveness Understand
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
Believe that you will succeed, and you will.
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Believe Inspirational Willing Yourself
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
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
Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.
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Enemy Hurt Ourselves Time Try Wasted Time
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.
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Conversation Goodness Interest Listening Yourself
Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Happiness Remember Thinking Yourself
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
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Improvement Profit Try Yourself
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
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Ability Criticism Encouragement
Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.
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Follow Goodness Leadership Myself
The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.
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Change Feeling Important Life Person
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
90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
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Communication Management Problem
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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Friendship Interest People Yourself

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

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