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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
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Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- 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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- 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
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- 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
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
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
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- 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
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
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
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Create happiness for others.
- 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
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
Tell the audience what you're going to say,
say it;
then tell them what you've said.
- 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
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
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
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