Dale Carnegie
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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.
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.Collection: Encouragement
If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.Collection: Doe
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.Collection: Confidence
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.Collection: Trying
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.Collection: Confidence
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Inspirational
People do things for "their" reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.Collection: People
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.Collection: Gratitude
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.Collection: Inspirational
The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.Collection: Motivational
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."Collection: Men
If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Knowing
Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.Collection: Men
An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.Collection: Planning
Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.Collection: Important
If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.Collection: Interesting
A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.Collection: Men
Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.Collection: Dog
(A smile) costs nothing, but creates much.Collection: Cost
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.Collection: Receiving
If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?Collection: Wall
Excitement radiates through your eyes, your face, your voice, your soul, and your whole personality.Collection: Eye
Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.Collection: Flattery
It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.Collection: Hurt
If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.Collection: Appreciation
When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?Collection: Mistake
Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.Collection: Disappointment
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?Collection: Men
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.Collection: Attention
Stop worrying and start living.Collection: Life
Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.Collection: Life
Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the factsCollection: Intelligent
The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.Collection: Criticism
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.Collection: Gratitude
You can't get anywhere in this world without wanting to do something.Collection: World
Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.Collection: Eye
An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.Collection: Pride
A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in IndiaCollection: Men
There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason — and you have the key to his actions, perhaps to his personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.Collection: Thinking
Monotony reveals our limitations.Collection: Monotony