"When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison……" — Dale Carnegie
"When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity."
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361 Quotes by Dale Carnegie
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets…
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes…
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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