The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

—Dale Carnegie

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About Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie ( KAR-nig-ee; spelled Carnagey until c. 1922; November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955) was an American writer and teacher of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win...

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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.

—Dale Carnegie

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.

—Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

—Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

—Dale Carnegie

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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do.

—Dale Carnegie

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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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The giving of love is an education in itself.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

—William Shakespeare

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

—Thomas Fuller

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