We talk a lot about the importance of physical exercise to wake us up out of the half sleep in which so many of us walk around. But we need, even more, some spiritual and mental exercises every morning to stir us into action. Give yourself a pep talk every day.
Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.
In order to make friends you must first be friendly
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.
Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it."
In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.
Winning friends begins with friendliness.
Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.
People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.
One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to [his or her] opinion, let [him or her] sustain a feeling of importance.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.
If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.
Your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our # thoughts we can change our lives.
The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.
Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.
We are gods in the chrysalis.
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.
By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!
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