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To change somebody's behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person's outstanding characteristics.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference
He who walks straight rarely falls
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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