Dale Carnegie Quotes
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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.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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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 that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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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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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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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.
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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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.
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Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.