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.
DALE CARNEGIEThree-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
More Dale Carnegie Quotes
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Everyday is a new life to a wise man.
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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.
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Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
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Believe that you will succeed, and you will.
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Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.
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Good leaders are scarce; so I’m following myself.
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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 hope at all.
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Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
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Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.
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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.
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An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.”
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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.
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Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.
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It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
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You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.
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90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.
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Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone’s face.
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.
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When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.
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If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.
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Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener.
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Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
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