Best Win Friends And Influence People Quotes

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Try honest to see things from the other person’s point of view.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Stop worrying and start living.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

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

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

Always make the other person feel important.

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 that person’s angle as well as from your own.

You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Become genuinely interested in other people.

Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.

Let the other person save face.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent’s good will.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint.

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. …Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.