Дейл Карнеги: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 3)

“Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".”

“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”

“You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.”

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”

“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

“I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.”

“Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.”

“If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive”

“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 have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.”

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

“If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.”

“Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.”

“criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.”

“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.”

“if you want to keep happiness, you have to share it!”

“We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today”

“Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do. That’s a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. “To know all is to forgive all.”

“A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.”

“arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.”