Win Friends And Influence People Quotes & Sayings

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence. — Zig Ziglar

The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and saying 'The good news is I got him down to 10. The bad news is adultery is still in. — Steve Kluger

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection. — Mark Skousen

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. — Dale Carnegie

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. — Dale Carnegie

It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up. — Charles Kennedy

She didn't smile back. Not even a little. I totally needed to read that book on how to win friends and influence people. But that would involve an innate desire to win friends and influence people. — Darynda Jones

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. — Confucius

There is about world-class athletes carving out exemptions from physical laws a transcendent beauty that makes manifest God in man. — David Foster Wallace

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like. — Jerome Kern

Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved , rather than that of loving , of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable. In pursuit of this aim they follow several paths. One, which is especially used by men, is to be successful, to be as powerful and rich as the social margin of one's position permits. Another, used especially by women, is to make oneself attractive, by cultivating one's body, dress, etc ... Many of the ways to make oneself lovable are the same as those used to make oneself successful, to 'win friends and influence people'. As a matter of fact, what most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. — Erich Fromm

Let the other person save face. — Dale Carnegie

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. — Edwin Percy Whipple

The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform. — Glenn Greenwald

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality ... an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth. — Parker J. Palmer

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book. — Charles E. McKenzie

Will shifted uncomfortably in his seat, his eyes slanting away from Tessa's. — Cassandra Clare

How to Win Friends and Influence People' Now that's just fascinating, but maybe you should read the Sons of Hell edition, 'How Not to Scare the Shit out of People and Alienate Everyone You Meet — Trinity Faegen

A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream. — Melody Carstairs

Knowing the truth about what you believe and longing for the time before you knew it are not mutually exclusive states of being. — Erin Keane

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else? — Kevin Spacey

(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.) Today — Rainbow Rowell

Adrian said, "You sure know how to win friends and influence people." "That's why they call me Raylene. It's Greek for 'charming.' " "You're so full of shit," he observed. — Cherie Priest

Even in the Stone Age, the rules for how to win friends and influence people were likely the same as today's: Cooperate when your neighbor needs shelter, share your dinner even if you're still hungry, and think twice before saying "That loincloth makes you look fat." In other words, a little self-control, please. — Kelly McGonigal