Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 24

He who angers you, conquers you.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to bedominating thought in one''s mind.

If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his pointof view aswell as your own.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Like a ball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success isknowing how to get along with people.

When we blame, we give away our power.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Why don''t you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don''t isthat you''re in conflict with yourself.

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play nojokes, and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thoughtor image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in ourlives.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn''t sit for a month.

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace forit.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second,imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

So remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in otherpeople than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested inyou.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, inother words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as hesees himself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant''s point of view.

When you have to make a choice and you don''t make it, that itself is a choice.

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