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Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie
Age: 66 †
Born: 1888
Born: November 24
Died: 1955
Died: November 1
Biographer
Motivational Speaker
Psychologist
Teacher
Writer
Maryville
Missouri
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
Dale Harbison Carnagey
Dale Harbison Carnegie
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Great speakers are not born, they're trained.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.
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Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes
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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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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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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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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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Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
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How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.
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Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.
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Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
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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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You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.
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We move toward what we picture in our minds.
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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.
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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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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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