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.
DALE CARNEGIETake charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.
More Dale Carnegie Quotes
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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.
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Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.
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Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
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If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.
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It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude.
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Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance
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Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
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Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
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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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If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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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.
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It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves.
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