Dale Carnegie
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
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.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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.
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.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
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.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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 tend to take care of themselves.
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.
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 blooming outside our windows today.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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.
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.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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.
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.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
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.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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.
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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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Well, nobody's perfect.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
Hey, lady !
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
What do they think I am, dumb or something ? Why, I make more money than Calvin Coolidge ! Put together !
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
I saw and loved.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
One who walks the road with love will never walk the road alone.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
You talkin to me ?
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Love is sweet, delicate, dreamy an eternity of gorgeous moments.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.