More from Dale Carnegie
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie 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 CarnegieDale Carnegie People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves.
Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale CarnegieDale 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.
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How strange that our hearts heal from the same thing that broke it -love.
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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
Jordan PetersonJordan Peterson Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.
XenophonXenophon We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant To be is to do.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.
Genghis KhanGenghis Khan I’m a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.
Paul WalkerPaul Walker An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.
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