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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Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
To know me is to love me.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
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.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Things do not change we change.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The buck stops here.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
I know that I will die laughing.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
How can you tell the difference between a run-over snake and a run-over lawyer? There are skid marks in front of the snake.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
Open the pod bay doors,
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Why don't you go outside and jerk yourself a soda ?
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
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's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Good morning, Vietnam !
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
How do I love thee ? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
May you live all the days of your life.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
A friend's love says. If you ever need anything, I'll be there. True Love says, you'll never need anything, i'll be there.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Ability is sexless.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
To go fast, row slowly.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
They are able because they think they are able.