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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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for god the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching, it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
My precious.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
How do I look ?
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Give all to love.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
I think therefore I am
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Don't follow your dreams, chase them.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Something happened to me. It was the sweetest thing that ever could be. It was a fantasy a dream come true, it was the day I met you !
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
They're called boobs, Ed.
My heart is ever at your service.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Sanctuary !
The book you don't read cant help.
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Eddie, you're a born loser.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
What is essential is invisible to the eyes.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
My love for you is a journey, starting at forever, and ending at never.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Okay, but I get to be on top.