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Own Quotes by Dale Carnegie
- Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead…
- For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
- I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say…
- The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes…
- I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast,…
- If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.
- If you have some idea you believe in, don't listen to the croaking chorus. Listen only to what your own inner voice tells you.
- No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that…
- Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
- If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still…
- Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin…
- You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity…
- Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all…
- John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov