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Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie
Age: 66 †
Born: 1888
Born: November 24
Died: 1955
Died: November 1
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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.
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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.
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Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.
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Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.
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What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!
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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.
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The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.
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History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
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When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: Try to bear lightly what needs must be. Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.
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Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.
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John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
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Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener
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Do the very best you can.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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No matter what happens, always be yourself.
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It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.
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The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
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The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.
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