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If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.”Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who thinks only of himself is hopelessly uneducated. He is not educated, no matter how instructed he may be.
Speaker: Nicholas Murray ButlerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Speaker: Alfred AdlerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Speaker: Owen D. YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own.
Speaker: Henry FordPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
Speaker: Harry A. OverstreetPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be ‘hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise,’ and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime – repeat them years after you have forgotten them.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn from him.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
Speaker: Charles SchwabPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among the men the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a man as criticisms from his superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a man incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loathe to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.Speaker: Charles SchwabPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you tell me how you get your feelings of importance, I’ll tell you what you are. That determines your character.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As Dr. Johnson said: “God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of His days.” Why should you and I?
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To know all is to forgive all.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.
But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!