Browsing Quotes With Tag: how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people (34)
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When you consider that we leave the highly difficult adjustment of marriage so largely to chance, the marvel is that our divorce rate is only 16 percent. An appalling number of husbands and wives are not really married but simply undivorced: they live in a sort of purgatory.
Speaker: Oliver M. ButterfieldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Compared with marriage, being born is a mere episode in our careers, and dying a trivial incident.
Speaker: Dorothy DixPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“’Tis not love’s going hurts my days,
But that it went in little ways.”Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The average man can be led readily if you have his respect and if you show him that you respect him for some kind of ability.
Speaker: Samuel VauclainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You deserve very little credit for being what you are – and remember, the man who comes to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserves very little discredit for being what he is.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men, they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an injury.
Speaker: Lao TszePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Men must be taught as if you taught them not
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.”Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who thinks only of himself is hopelessly uneducated. He is not educated, no matter how instructed he may be.
Speaker: Nicholas Murray ButlerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
Speaker: Alfred AdlerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Speaker: Owen D. YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own.
Speaker: Henry FordPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
Speaker: Harry A. OverstreetPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be ‘hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise,’ and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime – repeat them years after you have forgotten them.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!