Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.
People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
When you’re afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.
Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.
Your smile is a messenger of your goodwill.
Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.
We move toward what we picture in our minds.
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.
If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.
Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.
Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.
Don’t you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
People like people who help them like themselves.
Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.
Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes.
Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.
A boil on a man’s neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India.
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?