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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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Love is like a mustard seed, planted by god and watered by men.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Better late than never.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Hey, lady !
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Live your dreams.
Life is the first gift, love is the second.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed. Our love to others, and others love to us.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
None are homely who smile.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
The worst part of life is waiting. The best part of life is having someone worth waiting for.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce ? The cuckoo clock.
Work and lovethese are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Kid, the next time I say, Let's go someplace like Bolivia, let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Do not let the reasons for your challenges become the excuses for your failure.
Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
Learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
For with god all things are possible.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.