Dale Carnegie

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

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.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

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.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

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?

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.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

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.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

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.