Inspirational quotes
Dale Carnegie
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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.
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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?
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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 hope at all.
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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.
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Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
~ Dale Carnegie Quotes from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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So let’s be content to live the only time we can possibly live: from now until bedtime. “Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, from now until nightfall,” wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. “Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
~ Dale Carnegie Quotes from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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Professor William James, the father of applied psychology, has been dead since 1910. But if he were alive today, and could hear this formula for facing the worst, he would heartily approve of it. How do I know that? Because he told his own students: “Be willing to have it so... Be willing to have it so,” he said, because “...acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~ Dale Carnegie Quotes from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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Experience has proved to me, time after time, the enormous value of arriving at a decision. It is the failure to arrive at a fixed purpose, the inability to stop going around and round in maddening circles, that drives men to nervous breakdowns and living hells. I find that fifty per cent of my worries vanishes once I arrive at a clear, definite decision; and another forty per cent usually vanishes once I start to carry out that decision.
So, I banish about 90 per cent of my worries by taking these four steps:-
Writing down precisely what I am worried about.
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Writing down what I can do about it.
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Deciding what to do.
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Starting immediately to carry out that decision.”
~ Dale Carnegie Quotes from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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Some readers are going to snort at the idea of making so much over a hackneyed proverb like “Don’t cry over spilt milk.” I know it is trite, commonplace, a platitude. I know you have heard it a thousand times. But I also know that these hackneyed proverbs contain the very essence of the distilled wisdom of all ages. They have come out of the fiery experience of the human race and have been handed down through countless generations. If you were to read everything that has ever been written about worry by the great scholars of all time, you would never read anything more basic or more profound than such hackneyed proverbs as “Don’t cross your bridges until you come to them” and “Don’t cry over spilt milk.” If we only applied those two proverbs--instead of snorting at them--we wouldn’t need this book at all. In fact, if we applied most of the old proverbs, we would lead almost perfect lives. However, knowledge isn’t power until it is applied; and the purpose of this book is to remind you of what you already know and to kick you in the shins and inspire you to do something about applying it.
~ Dale Carnegie Quotes from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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knowledge isn’t power until it is applied
~ Dale Carnegie Quotes from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
