Dale Carnegie
i really like reading booksCollection: Book
Looking at the other person's point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.Collection: Party
Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more.Collection: Loss
Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.Collection: Self
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.Collection: Purpose
Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.Collection: Yield
If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.Collection: Friendship
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?Collection: Encouraging
Begin with praise and honest appreciation.Collection: Appreciation
criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.Collection: Hurt
Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country.Collection: Country
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.Collection: Acceptance
So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.Collection: Good Conversation
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.Collection: Attitude
We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.Collection: Friends
...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.Collection: Gratitude
Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.Collection: Inspirational
Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.Collection: Life Is
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. When you're afraid, keep your mind on what you have to do...if you have been thoroughly prepared, you will not be afraid. We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Goal
The thing is to get the work done.Collection: Done
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.Collection: Positive
This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?Collection: Adventure
Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Constantly criticizing, condemning and complaining is what breaks most relationships. Instead of criticizing and condemning, figure out how you can solve the problem together. Instead of focusing on blaming the other person for what they did wrong, focus on how you can avoid the problem next time.Collection: Focus
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.Collection: Love You
Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.Collection: Change
Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.Collection: Flower
Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.Collection: Self
Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.Collection: Life And Love
One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.Collection: Winning
Become genuinely interested in other people.Collection: People
Take a chance! All life is a chanceCollection: Overcoming Addiction
The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.Collection: Life
Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.Collection: Marketing
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.Collection: Improvement
Your smile is a messenger of your goodwill.Collection: Your Smile
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.Collection: Believe
Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.Collection: Wrestling
Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.Collection: Encouragement
Do the very best you can.Collection: Success
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. It's only when necessity faces us that we rise to the occasion and actually do the things that hitherto have seemed impossible.Collection: Dream
Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.Collection: Views
Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.Collection: Ambition
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.Collection: Happiness
Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.Collection: World
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.Collection: Motivational
A smile is nature's best antidote for discouragement. It brings rest to the weary, sunshine to those who are frowning, and hope to those who are hopeless and defeated. A smile is so valuable that it can't be bought, begged, borrowed, or taken away against your will. You have to be willing to give a smile away before it can do anyone else any good. So if someone is too tired or grumpy to flash you a smile, let him have one of yours anyway. Nobody needs a smile as much as the person who has none to give.Collection: Hope
If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.Collection: Inspirational
Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.Collection: Inspire