Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

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The 33 Strategies of war

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Create a sense of urgency and desperation

The Death-Ground Strategy

You are your own worst enemy. You waste previous time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Cut your ties to the past — enter unknown territory. Place yourself on "death ground", where your back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.

In 1519, Hernán Cortés led an expedition to conquer the Aztecs. When he arrived in Mexico, his men grew fearful of the fierce warriors. Cortés sank his ships so his soldiers could not run away. Left with no option, they fought and won. People fight like wildcats when they have no other choice.

Overwhelm resistance with speed and suddenness

The Blitzkrieg Strategy

In a world in which many people are indecisive and overly cautious, the use of speed will bring you untold power. Striking first, before your opponents have time to think or prepare, will make them emotional, unbalanced, and prone to error.

In German, “blitzkrieg” means “lightning war,” an onslaught of ultra fast movement and total obliteration. People often are indecisive and fear moving quickly. If you strike boldly, hard and fast, your enemies won’t know what hit them

Selective quotes of George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

How To Win Friends & Influence People: IF YOU DON’T DO THIS, YOU ARE HEADED FOR TROUBLE.

How To Win Friends & Influence People is a book authored by Dale Carnegie. This blog provides the book summary and encourage to read it.

Chapter 6: IF YOU DON’T DO THIS, YOU ARE HEADED FOR TROUBLE.

I once interviewed Jim Farley and asked him the secret of his success. He said, “Hard work,” and I said, “Don’t be funny.”
He then asked me what I thought was the reason for his success. I replied, "I understand you can call ten thousand people by their first names.”
“No. You are wrong, " he said. “I can call fifty thousand people by their first names.”
Make no mistake about it. That ability helped Mr. Farley put Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House when he managed Roosevelt’s campaign in 1932.

During the years that he held office as town clerk in Stony Point, he built up a system for remembering names.
In the beginning, it was a very simple one. Whenever he met a new acquaintance, he found out his or her complete name and some facts about his or her family, business and political opinions. He

fixed all these facts well in mind as part of the picture, and the next time he met that person, even if it was a year later, he was able to shake hands, inquire after the family, and ask about the

hollyhocks in the backyard. No wonder he developed a following!

Jim Farley discovered early in life that the average person is more interested in his or her own name than in all the other names on earth put together.Remember that name and call it easily, and

you have paid a subtle and very effective compliment.But forget it or misspell it—and you have placed yourself at a sharp disadvantage.

Sometimes it is difficult to remember a name, particularly if it is hard to pronounce. Rather than even try to learn it, many people ignore it or call the person by an easy nickname. Sid Levy

called on a customer for some time whose name was Nicodemus Papadoulos. Most people just called him “Nick.” Levy told us, “I made a special effort to say his name over several times to myself

before I made my call. When I greeted him by his full name, ‘Good afternoon, Mr. Nicodemus Papadoulos,’ he was shocked. For what seemed like several minutes there was no reply from him at all.

Finally, he said with tears rolling down his cheeks, ‘Mr. Levy, in all the fifteen years I have been in this country, nobody has ever made the effort to call me by my right name.’”

What was the reason for Andrew Carnegie’s success?
He was called the Steel King; yet he himself knew little about the manufacture of steel. He had hundreds of people working for him who knew far more about steel than he did. But he knew how to

handle people, and that is what made him rich. Early in life, he showed a flair for organization, a genius for leadership.

This policy of remembering and honoring the names of his friends and business associates was one of the secrets of Andrew Carnegie’s leadership. He was proud of the fact that he could call many of

his factory workers by their first names, and he boasted that while he was personally in charge, no strike ever disturbed his flaming steel mills.

The executive who tells me he can’t remember names is at the same time telling me he can’t remember a significant part of his business and is operating on quicksand.

a flight attendant for TWA, made it a practice to learn the names of as many passengers in her cabin as possible and use the name when serving them. This resulted in many compliments on her service

expressed both to her directly and to the airline. One passenger wrote, “I haven’t flown TWA for some time, but I’m going to start flying nothing but TWA from now on. You make me feel that your

airline has become a very personalized airline and that is important to me.”

Most people don’t remember names, for the simple reason that they don’t take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for

themselves; they are too busy.

But they were probably no busier than Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he took time to remember and recall even the names of mechanics with whom he came into contact.

Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that one of the simplest, most obvious and most important ways of gaining good will was by remembering names and making people feel important—yet how many of us do it?

Half the time we are introduced to a stranger, we chat a few minutes and can’t even remember his or her name by the time we say goodbye.

One of the first lessons a politician learns is this: “To recall a voter’s name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion.” And the ability to remember names is almost as important in business and

social contacts as it is in politics.

Napoleon the Third, Emperor of France could remember the name of every person he met. His technique? Simple. If he didn’t hear the name distinctly, he said, “So sorry. I didn’t get the name clearly.” Then, if it was an unusual name, he would say, “How is it spelled?”. During the conversation, he took the trouble to repeat the name several times, and tried to associate it in his mind with the person’s features, expression and general appearance.

If the person was someone of importance, Napoleon went to even further pains. As soon as His Royal Highness was alone, he wrote the name down on a piece of paper, looked at it, concentrated on it, fixed it securely in his mind, and then tore up the paper. In this way, he gained an eye impression of the name as well as an ear impression.

All this takes time, but “Good manners, are made up of petty sacrifices"

We should be aware of the magic contained in a name and realize that this single item is wholly and completely owned by the person with whom we are dealing and nobody else. The name sets the individual apart; it makes him or her unique among all others. The information we are imparting or the request we are making takes on a special importance when we approach the situation with the name of the individual. From the waitress to the senior executive, the name will work magic as we deal with others.


PRINCIPLE 3: Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

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"Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future"

"More than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had to the power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it well to the best of my ability and letting the future take care of itself."
 - Sir William Osier

"The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not."   Keep active, keep busy!
- George Bernard Shaw

"Having a good time at your work. If you enjoy what you are doing, you may work long hours, but it won't seem like work at all. It will seem like play."
Edison was a good example of that. Edison, the man who often ate and slept in his laboratory and toiled there for eighteen hours a day. But it wasn't toil to him. "I never did a day's work in my life, It was all fun." he exclaimed.

If George Bernard Shaw had not made it a rigid rule to do first things first, he would probably have
failed as a writer and might have remained a bank cashier all his life. His plan called for writing five
pages each day. That plan and his dogged determination to carry it through saved him. That plan
inspired him to go right on writing five pages a day for nine heartbreaking years, even though he made a total of only thirty dollars in those nine years-about a penny a day

"You are in the middle of the battle and you got two paths. Either you quit and run away to abroad nor fight till you die or until you get victory"

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness

Put a big, broad, honest-to-God smile on your face; throw back your shoulders; take a good, deep breath; and sing a snatch of song. If you can't sing, whistle. If you can't whistle, hum.

"The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if your cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there."

You will quickly discover that it is physically impossible to remain depressed while you are acting out the symptoms of being happy!

I found it in the book 'How to stop worrying and start living - Dale Carnegie.

Just for Today

Just for Today

1) I will be happy (Act cheerfully)
2) I will try to adjust (myself to my family, my business, and my luck as they come and not try to adjust everything to my own desires.)
3) I will take care of my body ( do exercise and doesn't neglect it)
4) I will try to strengthen my mind (learn something useful, read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.)
5) I will exercise my soul in three ways ( Do somebody a good and not get found out.Do at least two things I don't want to do)
6) I will be agreeable.( Dress and look well, talk low, act courteously, praise, don't criticise, regulate nor improve anyone.)
7) I will try to live through this day only ( Do important and prioritized tasks)
8) I will have a programme. (write down what I expect to do every hour)
9) I will have a quiet half-hour all by myself and relax.
10) I will be unafraid (to be happy and enjoy beautiful, to love)

Just for Today written by the late Sibyl F. Partridge. I found it in the book 'How to stop worrying and start living - Dale Carnegie

How To Win Friends & Influence People: A SIMPLE WAY TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION

How To Win Friends & Influence People is a book authored by Dale Carnegie. This blog provides the book summary and encourage to read it.

Chapter 5: A SIMPLE WAY TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, “I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.” That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.

A baby’s smile has the same effect

An insincere grin? No. That doesn't fool anybody. We know it is mechanical and we resent it. I am talking about a real smile, a heartwarming smile, a smile that comes from within, the kind of smile that will bring a good price in the marketplace.

People who smile, tend to manage teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children. There’s far more information in a smile than a frown. That’s why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

Robert Cryer, manager of a computer department for a Cincinnati, Ohio, company, told how he had successfully found the right applicant for a hard-to-fill position, “I was desperately trying to recruit a Ph.D. in computer science for my department. I finally located a young man with ideal qualifications who was about to be graduated from Purdue University. After several phone conversations I learned that he had several offers from other companies, many of them larger and better known than mine. I was delighted when he accepted my offer. After he started on the job, I asked him why he had chosen us over the others. He paused for a moment and then he said, ‘I think it was because managers in the other companies spoke on the phone in a cold, business-like manner, which made me feel like just another business transaction. Your voice sounded as if you were glad to hear from me…that you really wanted me to be part of your organization.’ You can be assured, I am still answering my phone with a smile.”

people rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it

You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.

I have asked thousands of business people to smile at someone every hour of the day for a week and then come to class and talk about the results. How did it work?

I have been married for over eighteen years,and in all that time I seldom smiled at my wife or spoke two dozen words to her from the time I got up until I was ready to leave for business. As I sat down to breakfast, I greeted my wife with a ‘Good morning, my dear,’ and smiled as I said it. As I leave for my office, I greet the elevator operator in the apartment house with a ‘Good morning’ and a smile, I greet the doorman with a smile. I smile at the cashier in the subway booth when I ask for change. As I stand on the floor of the Stock Exchange, I smile at people who until recently never saw me smile. I soon found that everybody was smiling back at me, I treat those who come to me with complaints or grievances in a cheerful manner, I smile as I listen to them and I find that adjustments are accomplished much easier. I find that smiles are bringing me dollars, many dollars every day. I have also eliminated criticism from my system. I give appreciation and praise now instead of condemnation. I have stopped talking about what I want. I am now trying to see the other person’s viewpoint. And these things have literally revolutionized my life. I am a totally different man, a happier man, a richer man, richer in friendships and happiness—the only things that matter much after all.

You don’t feel like smiling? Then what? Two things. First, force yourself to smile. If you are alone, force yourself to whistle or hum a tune or sing. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness, and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

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 it.

For example, two people may be in the same place, doing the same thing; both may have about an equal amount of money and prestige, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude. I have seen just as many happy faces among the poor peasants toiling with their primitive tools in the devastating heat of the tropics as I have seen in air-conditioned offices in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

“most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

when a boy realizes that he is going to be a cripple for life, he is shocked at first; but after he gets over the shock, he usually resigns himself to his fate and then becomes as happy as normal boys.

Working all by oneself in a closed-off room in an office not only is lonely, but it denies one the opportunity of making friends with other employees in the company.

she said to herself, “Maria, you can’t expect those women to come to you. You have to go out and meet them.” The next time she walked to the water cooler, she put on her brightest smile and said, “Hi, how are you today?” to each of the people she met. The effect was immediate. Smiles and hellos were returned, the hallway seemed brighter, the job friendlier

Whenever you go out-of-doors, carry the crown of the head high, greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp. Do not fear being misunderstood and do not waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do, and then, as the days go gliding away, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual…

Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude—the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. To think rightly is to create. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. 

“A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.”

Especially when that someone is under pressure from his bosses, his customers, his teachers or parents or children, a smile can help him realize that all is not hopeless—that there is joy in the world.

PRINCIPLE 2: Smile.