Quotes from Dale Carnegie

Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

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

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little.

I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory" was the motto of the King's Guard in ancient Greece.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

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

If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.

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.

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

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.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?

if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !