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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 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
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Maryville
Missouri
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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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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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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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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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Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.
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People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
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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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Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
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Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.
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The very best way in all the world to overcome self-consciousn ess and shyness is to get interested in other people and to think of them and, almost miraculously, your timidity will pass. Do something for other people. Practice deeds of kindness, acts of friendliness, and you'll be surprised to see what happens.
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I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.
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Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.
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Monotony reveals our limitations.
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Today is the only time we can possibly live.
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