Dale Carnegie Trying Quotations

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.

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.

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

Really important goals are accomplished by people who will keep trying even when there seems to be no hope.