The Value of a Smile at Christmas

It costs nothing, but creates much.

It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give.

It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

None are so rich they can get a long without it, and none are so poor but are richer for its benefits.

It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.

It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and Nature's best antidote for trouble.

Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anybody till it is given away.

And if in the last-minute rush of Christmas buying some of our salespeople should be too tired to give you a smile, may we ask you to leave one of yours?

For nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give!

From Dale Carnegie's book: "How To Win Friends & Influence People"

Life is an opportunity...

Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
-Bernie Siegal, M.D.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
-Ken Keyes Jr., author

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
-Dale Carnegie

Life is a great big canvas...

Reality is an acquired taste.
-Robert Fritz

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
-Dale Carnegie

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
-Danny Kaye

Beauty is not caused...

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
-Norman Vincent Peale

The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you out did and defeated them.
-Harold Kushner

Beauty is not caused. It is.
-Emily Dickenson

Experience is the hardest teacher...

Don't get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest.
-Dale Carnegie

Experience is the hardest teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.
-Anonymous

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.
-Charles De Gaulle

We are what we repeatedly do...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle

Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw

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.
-Dale Carnegie

When I let go of what I am...

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
-William James

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-Lao Tzu

Choice, not chance, determines human destiny.
-Anonymous

If you limit your choices...

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
-Robert Fritz

Life is what you make it, not what it makes of you. How do you choose to live your life... by choice or circumstance?
-Unknown

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
-Charles F. Kettering

It isn't what you have...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle

Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw

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.
-Dale Carnegie

It takes a lot of time to get experience...

It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.
-Benjamin M. Duggar

Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education.
-O'Shea

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have it easily in your power...

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.
-Dale Carnegie

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
-T. D. English

A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success. A poor man who gives of his service and his sympathy to others has achieved true success even though material prosperity or outward honours never come to him.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Follow your own path...

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.
-Karl Marx

To have integrity the individual cannot merely be a weather vane turning briskly with every doctrinal wind that blows. He must possess key loyalties and key convictions which can serve as a basis of judgment and a standard of action.
-John Studebaker

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
-C. C. Scott

Be the conscious creator...

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.
-Robert Fritz

Be the conscious creator of your own success.
-Dale Carnegie Graduate, Ontario

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
-Dale Carnegie