Quotes about Wisdom
Say to yourself over and over: "My peace of mind, my happiness, my health, and perhaps even my income will, in the long run, depend largely on applying the old, obvious, and eternal truths taught in this book.
— Dale Carnegie
every month all the insurance contracts her company issues. Yes, she reads the same contracts over month after month, year after year. Why? Because experience has taught
— Dale Carnegie
For life is too short to be little.
— Dale Carnegie
Here is a method that deserves a whole chapter. Read history! Try to get the viewpoint of ten thousand years—and see how trivial YOUR troubles are, in terms of eternity!
— Dale Carnegie
There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.
— Dale Carnegie
As I look back now I wonder how I was ever able to sell anything. I lost years of my life in scrapping and arguing. I keep my mouth shut now. It pays.
— Dale Carnegie
Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
— Dale Carnegie
I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.
— Dale Carnegie
I am ashamed to realize that I never really learned to live until I feared I was going to die.
— Dale Carnegie
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
— Dale Carnegie
Logan Pearsall Smith packed a lot of wisdom into a few words when he said: "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
— Dale Carnegie
You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience
— Dale Carnegie