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

—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 want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

—Dale Carnegie

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

—Dale Carnegie

all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

—Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

—Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

—Dale Carnegie

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Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you need, and you don't want to have what you don't need.

—Charan Singh

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

—Bertrand Russell

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There's an African proverb: "When death finds you, may it find you alive." Alive means living your own damn life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.

—Michael Meade

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I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn’t be able to survive if he left me.

—Jean Kwok in Girl in Translation

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

—Eric Sevareid

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