“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
Variant: Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 5
Variant: 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.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Part 1 : Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, p. 36.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Context: Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, "... and speak all the good I know of everybody." Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. "A great man shows his greatness," says Carlyle, "by the way he treats little men."
Variant: When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
On his book How to Win Friends and Influence People as quoted in Newsweek (8 August 1955); also quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957) by James Beasley Simpson, p. 128.
As quoted in The Ring of Truth (2004) by Joseph O'Day
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 110
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
Dale Carnegie, quoted in Permission to Play : Taking Time to Renew Your Smile (2003) by Jill Murphy Long, p. 69
“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People