Dale Carnegie

There you are; human nature in action, wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We are all like that.

Try your best to develop an ability to let others look into your head and heart. Learn to make your thoughts, your ideas, clear to others, individually, in groups, in public. You will find, as you improve in your effort to do this, that you — your real self — are making an impression, an impact, on people such as you never made before.

Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save his face? He didn’t ask for your opinion. He didn’t want it. Why argue with him? Always avoid the acute angle.

لو أخبرتني كيف تشعر بأهميتك سأخبرك ماذا تكون أنت

"A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another."
Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer?
Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very
thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

Abe Lincoln once remarked that “most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” He was right.

If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to get something out of the other person in return – if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.

If you want to be enthusiastic,
act enthusiastic.

Hay que evitar siempre el ángulo agudo.

It is often dangerous to rush into battle without pausing for preparation or waiting for recruits.

When one person yells the other should listen. When two people yell, there’s no communication.

अगर हम इतने ज़्यादा स्वार्थी हो जाएँ कि हम सामने वाले से बिना कुछ लिए उसे ज़रा सी ख़ुशी या तारीफ़ भी न दे सकें तो हमारी आत्माएँ सड़े हुए सेब की तरह सिकुड़ चुकी हैं और हमें निश्चित रूप से असफल हो जाना चाहिए।

I would rather walk the sidewalk in front of a person's office for two hours before an interview than step into that office without a perfectly clear idea of what I was going to say and what that person — from my knowledge of his or her interests and motives — was likely to answer.

Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire ... and the best piece of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics, is: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way

القلق هو الدوران في حلقة مفرغة في حالة خروج عن العقل