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

Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
DALE CARNEGIE

Deep Happiness Person Praise Seek
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.
DALE CARNEGIE

Development Help Interest Mindset People Principle
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so. Don’t condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
DALE CARNEGIE

People Remember Tolerance Try Understand Wrong
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
DALE CARNEGIE

Improvement Profit Try Yourself
An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.
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Action Management Planning Save Time Yourself
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
DALE CARNEGIE

Happiness Success Yourself
If we speak poorly about that which we do well, people will assume we perform poorly!
DALE CARNEGIE

Action Assumption Ourselves Poor Talk
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.”
DALE CARNEGIE

Happiness Himself Man Old
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
DALE CARNEGIE

Ability Criticism Encouragement
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Busy Fear Home Thinking Yourself
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

Awake Day Development Enthusiasm Interest Life Yourself
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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Criticism Dangerous Hurt Important Person Pride
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

Classification Contact Evaluation Way World
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.
DALE CARNEGIE

Action Happiness Loud Smile Talk Word Yourself
Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.
DALE CARNEGIE

Attitude Charge Choice Yourself

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

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