"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."

"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."

"Could my opponents be right? Partly right? Is there truthor merit in their position or argument? Is my reaction onethat will relieve the problem, or will it just relieve any frustration? Will my reaction drive my opponents further awayor draw them closer to me? Will my reaction elevate the estimation good people have of me? Will I win or lose?What price will I have to pay if I win? If I am quiet about it, will the disagreement blow over? Is this difficult situationan opportunity for me?"

"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place or had some other job they would be happy. Well that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."

"If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying."

"Do things for others and you'll find your self - consciousness evaporating like morning dew."

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

"All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

"Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want."

"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."

"Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners."

"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."

"I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.'(...) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does (...) Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind (...) Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things - and only those things - that made him what he was. (...) You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are."

"As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation"

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."

"Applause is a receipt, not a bill."

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."

"Let's realise that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realise that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify himself o herself, and condemn us in return."

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."

"Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?"

"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."

"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."

"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

"By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing."

"If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will."

"Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you."

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect."

"Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

"You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It's easy"

"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."

"Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy."

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

"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."

"The firstsign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and actgreat. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assuresus, you must 'not look too good nor talk too wise."

"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience."

"If you're wrong, admit it!"