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Dale Carnegie
American
Writer
About the author
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Fear
#Mind
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#People
#Fun
#Succeed
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Argument
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Ideas
#Rules
The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Woman
#Expression
#Clothes
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Art
#Pleasure
#Giving
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Happiness
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Work
#Worry
#Frustration
#Fatigue
#Resentment
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Applause
#Happiness
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Possibilities
#Dream
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Want
#Success
#Happiness
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Talk
#Heart
#Man
#Road
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Successful
#Will
#Mistakes
#Man
#Profit
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#World
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Want
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Today
#Living
#Nature
#Human nature
#Windows
#Garden
#Roses
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Life
#Today
#Enthusiasm
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Want
#Act
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#People
#Logic
#Emotion
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Fate
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#People
#Years
#Trying
#Business
#Months
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Will
#Fear
#Mind
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.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#People
#Years
#Friends
#Trying
#Months
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Success
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Will
#Opinion
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Feeling
#Habit
#Present
#Energy
#Waste
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Life
#Chance
#Man
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Purpose
#Language
#Detail
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Will
#Act
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Fool
#Fools
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Applause
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.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Life
#Work
#Will
#Heart
#Thought
#Happiness
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Success
#Failure
#Discouragement
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Will
#First
#Jobs
#Care
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Fear
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Time
#Will
#Jobs
#Care
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Nations
#Nation
#Patriotism
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Want
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Fear
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Courage
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#First
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Success
#Sense
#Quality
#Enthusiasm
#Persistence
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Attitude
#Happiness
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#People
#Worry
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Work
#Nothing
#World
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Worry
#Sleep
#Lying
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Want
#Fear
#Home
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Action
#Want
#Fear
#Home
#Doubt
#Confidence
#Courage
#Inaction
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Time
#People
#Will
#Trying
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,
American
Writer
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Success
#Home
#Men
#Age
#Business
#Content
#Adventure
#Mediocrity
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Hope
#People
#World
#Trying
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie,
American
Writer
#Talk
#Life
#Attention