A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.
Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.
(A smile) costs nothing, but creates much.
Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.
If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?
Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.
Excitement radiates through your eyes, your face, your voice, your soul, and your whole personality.
It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.
If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.
When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?
Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
Stop worrying and start living.
Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts
The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.
When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.
You can't get anywhere in this world without wanting to do something.
Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.
A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India
An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.
There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason — and you have the key to his actions, perhaps to his personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.
Monotony reveals our limitations.
Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!
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