Dale Carnegie Quotes

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great people in various parts of the world,” Schwab declared, “I have yet to find the person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves — before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

She found such ecstasy looking at the soap bubbles and sparrows that she closed her book with these words: “ ‘Dear Lord,’ I whisper, ‘Our Father in Heaven, I thank Thee. I thank Thee.’ “ Imagine thanking God because you can wash dishes and see rainbows in bubbles and sparrows flying through the snow!

Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. “To know all is to forgive all.

Monotony reveals our limitations.

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means — we have everything to gain!

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

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.

دعنا نحاول توضيح الخصال المحمودة في الإنسان الآخر. ثم نسيان التملق، وامنح غيرك التقدير الأمين المخلص. ولتكن شجاعاً في استحسانك وسخياً في مديحك. ولسوف يقدر الناس كلماتك ويعتزون بها ويكررونها لسنوات بعد أن تكون قد نسيتها أنت تماماً.إن الذي يمكنه أن يفعل هذا يمتلك العالم كله، ومن لا يقدر فإنه يسير في طريق موحش

السعادة لاتعتمد على عوامل خارجية ، بل تحكمها حالتنا الذهنية .

I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the Government needed a dictator. Of course, it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success and I will risk the dictatorship.

Those who keep the peace of their inner selves in the midst of the tumult of the modern city are immune from nervous diseases.

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