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.
By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.
There is only one excuse for a speaker’s asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.
The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.
If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.
Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can’t listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint.
You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.
Develop success from failures.
Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires.
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.
You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.
This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?
One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to his opinion, to let him sustain his feeling of importance.
You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?