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Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

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
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
Dale Harbison Carnagey
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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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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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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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 never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
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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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If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.
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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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