Quotes from Dale Carnegie

there is little you can't accomplish in collaboration with others.

you are better than I was at your age. I have been guilty of so many silly things myself

Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, 'You're wrong.

you soften the approach and avoid raising his defenses immediately.

There are thousands of people like her, people who are ill from "ingratitude," loneliness, and neglect. They long to be loved; but the only way in this world that they can ever hope to be loved is to stop asking for it and to start pouring out love without hope of return.

El protestador crónico, aun el crítico más violento, se suavizará y apaciguará frecuentemente en presencia de un oyente que muestre paciencia y simpatía:

the Roman Empire, Marcus Aurelius, summed it up in eight words—eight words that can determine your destiny: "Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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

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

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are.

Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

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?

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

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 life time.

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

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

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.