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Dale Carnegie
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Dale Carnegie
Age: 66 †
Born: 1888
Born: November 24
Died: 1955
Died: November 1
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Maryville
Missouri
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What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work!
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It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.
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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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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.
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The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us and rare is the man who searches for his opportunity or sees one even when he stumbles over it.
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If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.
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If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified.
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Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.
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Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.
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Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.
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So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.
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Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
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So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments
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The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish the other selfish. One is universally admired the other universally condemned.
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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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The words Think and Thank are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.
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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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