Dale Carnegie Quotes

I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Be kind to dumb people.

I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it's pretty hard to go wrong.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?

A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

[..] and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live.

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.