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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 it.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Attitude Contentment Happiness Inspirational Life

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Dishonesty General Obregon S Philosophy Inspirational Life People

One of the 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

Dale Carnegie Life Living

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

Dale Carnegie Happiness Humor Philosophy Thought

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Philosophy Self Improvement Wisdom

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie 1936 Misattributed Ben Franklin Paraphrasing Wollstonecraft Self Improvement Wisdom

there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .

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Dale Carnegie Self Improvement Wisdom

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.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Self Improvement Wisdom

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary. If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Self Improvement Wisdom

Success is getting what you want..Happiness is wanting what you get.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Happiness Success

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Happiness Life Lessons Self Control

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Confidence Future Inspirational Happiness Hope Love Success Thinking Positive Today

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

Dale Carnegie Happiness Life Passion Work

If you're wrong, admit it!

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Inspiration Relationships

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Enjoyment Follow Your Bliss Success

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Logic People Prejudice Pride Relationships Vanity

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Life Lessons

Students of public speaking continually ask, How can I overcomeself-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before anaudience?Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that somehorses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at thethundering cars, while just ahead at the next railroad crossing afarmer's wife will be nervously trying to quiet her scared horse asthe train goes by?How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars—graze him in aback-woods lot where he would never see steam-engines orautomobiles, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently seethe machines?Apply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness andfear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying. You can never attainfreedom from stage-fright by reading a treatise. A book may giveyou excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in thewater, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangleand be half scared to death. There are a great many wetlessbathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swimin them. To plunge is the only way.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Fear Public Speaking Self Consciousness

It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Fear Fools

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

Dale Carnegie Friends Friendship Self Help

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Books Change Inspirational Life Self Improvement Self Realization Speaking

Could my opponents be right? Partly right? Is there truthor merit in their position or argument? Is my reaction onethat will relieve the problem, or will it just relieve any frustration? Will my reaction drive my opponents further awayor draw them closer to me? Will my reaction elevate the estimation good people have of me? Will I win or lose?What price will I have to pay if I win? If I am quiet about it,will the disagreement blow over? Is this difficult situationan opportunity for me?

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Inspirational Life

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Cause Cause And Effect Compassion Empathy Happiness Interest Point Of View Sympathy

As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Kindness

By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Gratitude Personal Development Personal Growth Thoughts

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.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Desire People Self

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: He is nothing but a boy -- a little boy!

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Atonement Empathy Laughing Parenting Suffer Suffering Understanding

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If youwant to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Confidence Courageous

Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Advice Public Speaking

The firstsign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and actgreat. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assuresus, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Greatness Public Speaking

We are gods in the chrysalis.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Attitude Dale Carnegie Inspiration Optimism

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Dealing With People Emotion Logic

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.(...) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does (...) Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind (...) Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was - and where he was. For it is those things -and only those things - that made him what he was. (...) You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Empathy People Relations Personality Sincerity

Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to his feel ins and ideas. You will be able to authentically and honestly say, I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Conversation Empathy Sympathy

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Complaint Condemnation Criticism Fools Misattributed Ben Franklin

Let's realise that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realise that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify himself o herself, and condemn us in return.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Criticism Inspirational

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Motivational Inspirational

The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out, the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish, the other selfish. One is universally admired, the other universally condemned.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Appreciation Carnegie Flattery Insincere Selfish Sincere Unselfish

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Judgemental Prejudice

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.

~ Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie Complaining Critics Fault Finder Listening
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