Quotes from Dale Carnegie

Even if we can't love our enemies, let's at least love ourselves. Let's love ourselves so much that we won't permit our enemies to control our happiness, our health and our looks. As Shakespeare put it: Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

Yo no lo puedo culpar por sentirse como se siente. Si yo estuviera en su lugar, no hay duda de que me sentiría de la misma manera".

Hable siempre de lo que interese a los demás.

A real leader will always follow . . .

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and ask yourself: 'How can I make this person want to do it?

PRINCIPLE 5 Let the other person save face.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment." —Dale Carnegie

Judge Joseph Sabbath of Chicago, who has reviewed 40,000 marital disputes and reconciled 2,000 couples, says: Trivialities are at the bottom of most marital unhappiness. Such a simple thing as a wife's waving good-bye to her husband when he goes to work in the morning would avert a good many divorces.

Yes, everyone faces challenges in their lives, and people commonly say it doesn't matter what the challenge is; what matters is how one responds to it.

Wouldn't you suppose that every college in the land would conduct courses to develop the highest-priced ability under the sun? But if there is just one practical, common-sense course of that kind given for adults in even one college in the land, it has escaped my attention up to the present

Rule 2 is: If you have a worry problem, apply the magic formula of Willis H. Carrier by doing these three things: Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen?" Prepare to accept it if you have to. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.

for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today.

You can count on me to be on your side.

Todos los hombres tienen temores, pero los valientes los olvidan y van adelante, a veces hasta la muerte, pero siempre hasta la victoria." Ése era el lema de la Guardia Real en la antigua Grecia.

Schwab says that he was paid this salary largely because of his ability to deal with people.

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine;

failure in marriage is usually due to four causes. He lists them in this order: • 1. Sexual maladjustment. • 2. Difference of opinion as to the way of spending leisure time. • 3. Financial difficulties. • 4. Mental, physical, or emotional abnormalities.

we tend to mirror the sentiment.

The person himself will think of the real reason. You don't need to emphasize that. But all of us, being idealists at heart, like to think of motives that sound good. So, in order to change people, appeal to the nobler motives.

He never raised his voice, even in the midst of volatile situations.

the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

That was the most considerate thing I have ever heard.' It was then I realized the power of appreciation.

John Dewey, one of America's most profound philosophers, phrased it a bit differently. Dr. Dewey said that the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important." Remember that phrase: "the desire to be important." It is significant. You are going to hear a lot about it in this book.