"Do the very best you can."
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"One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that at one time half of all the beds in our hospitals were reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who had collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives — if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: “Have no anxiety about the morrow”; or the words of Sir William Osler: "Live in day-tight compartments.""
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"A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there."
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"Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship."
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"Thousands of salespeople are pounding the pavements today, tired, discouraged and underpaid. Why? Because they are always thinking only of what they want. They don't realize that neither you nor I want to buy anything. If we did, we would go out and buy it. But both of us are eternally interested in solving our problems. And if salespeople can show us how their services or merchandise will help us solve our problems, they won't need to sell us. We'll buy. And customers like to feel that they are buying - not being sold."
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"One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to [his or her] opinion, let [him or her] sustain a feeling of importance."
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"Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy."
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"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."
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"Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal."
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"Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires."
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"If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
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"Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log."
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"We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think."
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"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."
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"The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation."
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"If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable."
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"Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness."
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"The very best way in all the world to overcome self-consciousn ess and shyness is to get interested in other people and to think of them and, almost miraculously, your timidity will pass. Do something for other people. Practice deeds of kindness, acts of friendliness, and you'll be surprised to see what happens."
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"Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint."
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"He who treads softly goes far."
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