"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have."

Carnegie, Dale on habit
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"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."

Carnegie, Dale on happiness
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"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."

Carnegie, Dale on memory
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"There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it."

Carnegie, Dale on motivation
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

Carnegie, Dale on perseverance
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"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."

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

Carnegie, Dale on preparation
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"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

Carnegie, Dale on present
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"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."

Carnegie, Dale on present
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"There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave."

Carnegie, Dale on present
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"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."

Carnegie, Dale on purpose   

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore."

Carnegie, Dale on risk
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"Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident."

Carnegie, Dale on speakers and speaking   

"Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."

Carnegie, Dale on speakers and speaking
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"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."

Carnegie, Dale on success
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"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."

Carnegie, Dale on bores and boredom
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"Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life."

Carnegie, Dale on philosophers and philosophy
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"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

Carnegie, Dale on mistakes
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"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Carnegie, Dale on fun
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"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."

Carnegie, Dale on joy
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"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

Carnegie, Dale on tragedies
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"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."

Carnegie, Dale on power
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"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

Carnegie, Dale on words
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"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

Carnegie, Dale on work
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"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."

Carnegie, Dale on communication
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"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."

Carnegie, Dale on communication
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"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."

Carnegie, Dale on criticism
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"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

Carnegie, Dale on
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"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life   

"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

Frankl, Viktor E. on choice
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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves."

Maslow, Abraham H. on peace
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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

Maslow, Abraham H. on perspective   

"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."

Maslow, Abraham H. on self-actualization
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"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

Maslow, Abraham H. on change
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"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."

Maslow, Abraham H. on happiness   

"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."

Maltz, Maxwell on adversity
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"People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for."

Maltz, Maxwell on goals