Dale Carnegie Quotes
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
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If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
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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.
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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
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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 of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.
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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
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The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
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A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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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.
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Abilities wither under criticism, they blossom under encouragement.
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This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?