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You can make more friends in two months
by Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

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Quotes by Dale Carnegie

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie

You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale 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 Carnegie

Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Tell the audience what you're going to say,
say it;
then tell them what you've said.
- Dale Carnegie

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw,
hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
Relevant detail, couched in concrete,
colorful language, is the best way
to recreate the incident as it happened
and to picture it for the audience.
- Dale Carnegie

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it -
that is the quickest and surest way
ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
- Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie

Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie

Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie

You Quotes and Sayings

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

I love you just the way you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain

You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter

Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein

Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain

Resenting someone, or hating someone, ensures that
you can never emotionally escape that person.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu

Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus

Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

When you lose touch with yourself,
you lose yourself in the world.
- Eckhart Tolle

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

Oh yes, the past can hurt.
But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.
- the movie The Lion King

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook

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