Carnegie Quotes

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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.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Dale Carnegie
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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.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemnβ€”and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Success is getting what you want.. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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Dale Carnegie
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And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.
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Gayle Forman (Where She Went (If I Stay, #2))
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Everybody in the world is seeking happinessβ€”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.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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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.
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Dale Carnegie
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Dale Carnegie
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Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Dale Carnegie
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If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
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Dale Carnegie
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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
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Dale Carnegie
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Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
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Dale Carnegie
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Our thoughts make us what we are.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
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Dale Carnegie
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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
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Andrew Carnegie
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No matter what happens, always be yourself.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, β€˜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.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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Dale Carnegie
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
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Dale Carnegie
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You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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Dale Carnegie
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To be interesting, be interested.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
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Dale Carnegie
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Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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Andrew Carnegie
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One of the 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.
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Dale Carnegie
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
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Andrew Carnegie
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I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argumentβ€” and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory” was the motto of the King’s Guard in ancient Greece.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.
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Dale Carnegie
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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Dale Carnegie
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Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
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Dale Carnegie
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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. β€œTo know all is to forgive all.
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Dale Carnegie (How To Win Friends and Influence People)
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No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
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Andrew Carnegie
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if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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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.
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Dale Carnegie
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Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.
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Dale Carnegie
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You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.
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Dale Carnegie
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arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Nobody kicks a dead dog
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Winning friends begins with friendliness.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
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Andrew Carnegie
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A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.
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Dale Carnegie
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There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
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Andrew Carnegie
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We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today
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Dale Carnegie
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The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.
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Dale Carnegie (How To Win Friends and Influence People)
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When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
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Andrew Carnegie
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It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.
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Dale Carnegie
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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.
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there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .
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Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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Andrew Carnegie
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
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Andrew Carnegie
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When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
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Andrew Carnegie
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
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Dale Carnegie
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You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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Dale Carnegie
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We are interested in others when they are interested in us.
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Dale Carnegie (How To Win Friends and Influence People)
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Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.
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Andrew Carnegie
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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Andrew Carnegie
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when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Emerson said: β€œEvery man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.
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Dale Carnegie (How To Win Friends and Influence People)
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The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listenerβ€” a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
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John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
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Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book "The Origin Of Species" he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizing his conclusions.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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That is the way Emerson said it. But here is the way a poet -the late Douglas Mallochsaid it: If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill. Be a scrub in the valley-but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush, if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass. If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass- But the liveliest bass in the lake! We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew. There's something for all of us here. There's big work to do and there's lesser to do And the task we must do is the near. If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by the size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are!
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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Write poorly. Suck. Write Awful. Terribly. Frightfully. Don’t care. Turn off the inner editor. Let yourself write. Let it flow. Let yourself fail. Do something crazy. Write 50,000 words in the month of November. I did it. It was fun. It was insane. It was 1,667 words per day. It was possible, but you have to turn off the inner critic off completely. Just write. Quickly. In bursts. With joy. If you can’t write, run away. Come back. Write again. Writing is like anything else. You won’t get good at it immediately. It’s a craft. You have to keep getting better. You don’t get to Juilliard unless you practice. You want to get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice ..or give them a lot of money. Like anything else it takes 10,000 hours to get to mastery. Just like Malcolm Gladwell says. So write. Fail. Get your thoughts down. Let it rest. Let is marinate. Then edit, but don’t edit as you type. That just slows the brain down. Find a daily practice. For me it’s blogging. It’s fun. The more you write the easier it gets. The more it is a flow, the less a worry. It’s not for school, it’s not for a grade, it’s just to get your thoughts out there. You know they want to come out. So keep at it. Make it a practice. Write poorly. Write awfully. Write with abandon and it may end up being really really good.
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Colleen Hoover
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When we are harassed and reach the limit of our own strength, many of us then turn in desperation to God-"There are no atheists in foxholes." But why wait till we are desperate? Why not renew our strength every day? Why wait even until Sunday? For years I have had the habit of dropping into empty churches on weekday afternoons. When I feel that I am too rushed and hurried to spare a few minutes to think about spiritual things, I say to myself: "Wait a minute, Dale Carnegie, wait a minute. Why all the feverish hurry and rush, little man? You need to pause and acquire a little perspective." At such times, I frequently drop into the first church that I find open. Although I am a Protestant, I frequently, on weekday afternoons, drop into St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, and remind myself that I'll be dead in another thirty years, but that the great spiritual truths that all churches teach are eternal. I close my eyes and pray. I find that doing this calms my nerves, rests my body, clarifies my perspective, and helps me revalue my values. May I recommend this practice to you?
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Dale Carnegie (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Dale Carnegie Books))
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Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an audience?" Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that some horses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at the thundering cars, while just ahead at the next railroad crossing a farmer's wife will be nervously trying to quiet her scared horse as the train goes by? How would you cure a horse that is afraid of carsβ€”graze him in a back-woods lot where he would never see steam-engines or automobiles, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently see the machines? Apply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness and fear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying. You can never attain freedom from stage-fright by reading a treatise. A book may give you excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in the water, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangle and be "half scared to death." There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.
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Dale Carnegie (The Art of Public Speaking)