If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.
We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling..
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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.
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.
The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
