Quotes from Dale Carnegie

The difference was in the details.

Confusion is the chief cause of worry.

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

They sought small, meaningful ways to leave people a little better.

You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience

The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is our very self…. All that a man achieves is the direct result of his own thoughts…. A man can only rise, conquer and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak and abject and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts.

individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.

have discovered from personal experience that one can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. "Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there...

Always make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.