The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

by Dale Carnegie

only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can, with perfect certainty, count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

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.

“Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.”

“every idea, concept, or conclusion which enters the mind is held as true unless hindered by some contradictory idea.”

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.