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Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie
Age: 66 †
Born: 1888
Born: November 24
Died: 1955
Died: November 1
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Motivational Speaker
Psychologist
Teacher
Writer
Maryville
Missouri
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Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.
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Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
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Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.
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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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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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Do the very best you can.
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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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Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.
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By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.
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Believe that you will succeed, and you will.
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You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing
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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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You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
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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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If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?
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The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.
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Create happiness for others.
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