Dale Carnegie Quotes

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“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.”

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and
try again in a different way.”

“You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing”

“when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.”

“If you want to be enthusiastic,
act enthusiastic.”

“We are interested in others when they are interested in us.”

“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.”

“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”

“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”

“Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.”

“We are gods in the chrysalis.”

“i really like reading books”

“Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.”

“Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. How about the time you gave a large contribution to the Red Cross? Yes, that is no exception to the rule. You gave the Red Cross the donation because you wanted to lend a helping hand; you wanted to do a beautiful, unselfish, divine act.”

“Each time I spoke, I gained a little courage. It took a long while—but today I have more happiness than I ever dreamed possible. In rearing my own children, I have always taught them the lesson I had to learn from such bitter experience: No matter what happens, always be yourself!”

“The average person is more interested in their own name than in all the other names in the world put together.”

“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”

“Here is one of the best bits of advice every given about the fine art of human relationships. "If there is any one secret of success," says Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own."”

“If out of reading this book you get just one thing—an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle—if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.”

“A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.”

“I often went fishing up in Maine during the summer. Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?"”

“Abilities wither under criticism, they blossom under encouragement.”

“Looking at the other person’s point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.”

“The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”

“There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.”

“People will pay more to be entertained than educated.”