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Dale Carnegie quotes, quotations, sayings

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
 1004    
How come on the condom dispensers it has a little picture of birds flying over a pretty mountain. They use sex to sell everything else... why don't they use sex to sell condoms?;"Jeff Carnegie
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.
Dale Carnegie
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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie
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Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Dale Carnegie
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
 1004    
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie
 1004    
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.
Dale Carnegie
 1004    
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
 1004    
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
 1004    
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.
Dale Carnegie
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
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How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.
Saadi
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
Oscar Levant
 1004    
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.
Dale Carnegie
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Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie
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Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie
 1004    
You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.
Dale Carnegie
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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie
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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
 1004    
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
 1004    
Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie
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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?
Dale Carnegie
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All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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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.
Dale Carnegie
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