If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.
Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.
We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.
Our thoughts make us what we are.
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.
Your smile is a messenger of your goodwill.
Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!
Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.
Looking at the other person's point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.
The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.
Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.
People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Today is the only time we can possibly live.
If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. 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.
If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.
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