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 CARNEGIEDo the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
More Dale Carnegie Quotes
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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.
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You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
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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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Take a chance! All life is a chance
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Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
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People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves.
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Believe you will be successful and you will.
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If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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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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If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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Don’t ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time
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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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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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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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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
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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.
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Try honest to see things from the other person’s point of view.
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Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
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Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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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.
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If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
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