My Favorite Quotes From How To Win Friends And Influence People.

For this week, I wrote down my favorite lines from Dale Carnegie’s Bestseller “How to win friends and influence people”.

• “If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive”.
• “Don’t criticize people, they are just what we would be under similar circumstances” -Mrs. Lincoln.
• “Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof, when your own doorstep is unclean”. -Confucius
• “A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men” -Carlyle.
• “The deepest urge in human nature is the urge to be important” -Dr. J Dewey.
• “The difference between appreciation and flattery is that one is sincere and the other one insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other one comes from the teeth out. One is unselfish, the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.”
• “Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” -General Obregon.
• “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.”
• “You have to be interested in people if you want to be a successful writer of stories.” (This one is my personal favorite because it means a lot to me as a writer).
• “A smile says: I like you, you make me happy, I’m glad to see you”
• “You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you”
• “Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices” -Emerson.
• “People who don’t listen to others are bores intoxicated with their own egos, drunk with a sense of their own importance”.
• “Every man I meet is my superior in some way, in that, I learn of him,” Emerson.
• “Avoid arguments as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes”
• “Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love” -Buddha.
• “When two people yell, there is no communication, just noise, and bad vibrations” -Jan Peerce.
• “Gentleness and friendliness are always stronger than fury and force”
• “He who treads softly goes far”
• “If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.” -La Rochefoucauld.
• “It is always easier to listen to unpleasant things after we have heard some praise of our good points”
• “Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• “Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement”

The end.