“Our thoughts make us what we are.”
— Dale Carnegie
“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.”
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ”
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
“To be interesting, be interested.”
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
“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.”
“If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be. ”
“One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
“You can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.”
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”
“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.”
“Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
“Everyday is a new life to a wise man.”
“Believe that you will succeed, and you will.”
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.”
“Don’t Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.”
“An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.”
“Stop worrying and start living.”
“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”
“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”
“Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.”
“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
“It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude.”
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
“Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
“Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.”
“Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”
“If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.”
“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”
“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”
“Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener.”
“Begin with praise and honest appreciation.”
“When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.”
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
“Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”
“No matter what happens, always be yourself.”
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”
“People like people who help them like themselves.”
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
“Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.”
“Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.”
“Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.”
“Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”
“Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.”
“If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won’t cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.”
“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
“When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don’t keep putting off decisions.”
“Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?”
“Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.”
“Excitement radiates through your eyes, your face, your voice, your soul, and your whole personality.”
“Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all?”
“Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.’ That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.”
“One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to his opinion, to let him sustain his feeling of importance.”
“The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
“Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.”
“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?”
“Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint.”
“Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.”
“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.”
“You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?”
“Each party should gain from the negotiation.”
“No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.”
“Let’s fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.”
“Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.”
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.”
“Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.”
“Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.”
“Do things for others and you’ll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.”
“Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.”
“Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.”
“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.”
“If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.”
“If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can’t be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?”
“If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
“There is only one excuse for a speaker’s asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.”
“My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.”
“Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.”
“The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success.”
“So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.”
“If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”
“We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.”
“We are gods in the chrysalis.”
“A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.”
“An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter – and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.”
“A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.”
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