Dale Carnegie

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.

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.

Excitement radiates through your eyes, your face, your voice, your soul, and your whole personality.

You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

Take charge of your attitude. _x000D_ Don't let someone else choose it for you.

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

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.