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“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
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
Dale Carnegie
“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”
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
“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
“Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.”
Dale Carnegie
“Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”
Dale Carnegie
“There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.”
Dale Carnegie
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.”
Dale Carnegie
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
Dale Carnegie
“Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.”
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
“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.”
Dale Carnegie
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
Dale Carnegie
“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”
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
“The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.”
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
“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”
Dale Carnegie
“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”
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
“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”
Dale Carnegie
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.”
Dale Carnegie
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
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
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
Dale Carnegie
“The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?”
Dale Carnegie
“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”
Dale Carnegie
“When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.”
Dale Carnegie
“Applause is a receipt, not a bill.”
Dale Carnegie