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Our thoughts make us what we are.

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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Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.
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Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
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Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.
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It isn't work that makes you tired, it's your mental attitude.
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If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.
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When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.
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People do things for their reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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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.
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Everyday is a new life to a wise man.
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Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.
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If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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Today is the only time we can possibly live.
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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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Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don't you do it?
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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.
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The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.
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If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. 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.
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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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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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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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