Dale Carnegie

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

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.

A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy