More from Dale Carnegie
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie 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.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie 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 CarnegieDale Carnegie The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie 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 CarnegieDale Carnegie Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie Try honest to see things from the other person’s point of view.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie 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.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
HerodotusHerodotus If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
Jack NicholsonJack Nicholson I never do anything by chance.
Brigitte BardotBrigitte Bardot Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
OvidOvid What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
Anatole FranceAnatole France If you ever get the chance to treat them the way they treated you, I hope you choose to walk away and do better.
Najwa ZebianNajwa Zebian If you ever get the chance to treat them the way they treated you, I hope you choose to walk away and do better.
Najwa ZebianNajwa Zebian If changes are unavoidable, nothing is permanent. If nothing is permanent, everything is temporary.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur