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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
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Maryville
Missouri
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'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity .
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Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.
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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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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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It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.
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Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.
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Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little.
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People support a world they helped create.
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When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.
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If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
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Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.
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Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.
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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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Our thoughts make us what we are.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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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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Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.
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Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes
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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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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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