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Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
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Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
- Dale Carnegie
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
- Dale Carnegie
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
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.
- Dale Carnegie
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Today is life - the only life you are sure of.
Make the most of today. Get interested in something.
Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby.
Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you.
Live today with gusto.
- Dale Carnegie
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie
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.
- Dale Carnegie
When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites,
our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie
Tell the audience what you're going to say,
say it;
then tell them what you've said.
- Dale Carnegie
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever I find the key to success,
someone changes the lock.
- Anonymous
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
In life you are given two ends;
one to think with and the other to sit on.
Your success in life depends on which end you use most.
Heads you win, tails you lose.
- Conrad Burns
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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