• 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.
• You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
• Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
• The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
• 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.
• Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have. It depends solely upon what you think.
• If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name, and you add to my feeling of importance.