戴尔·卡耐基（Dale Carnegie，1888 —1955）， 美国作家和讲师，也是自我提升、推销、企业培训、公开演讲和人际交往技巧等课程的开发者。他出生在密苏里州一个小小的的农场，生活贫困。他是《如何赢得朋友和影响他人》(How to Win Friends and Influence People)一书的作者，这本书至今仍很受欢迎。他还写了《如何停止忧虑，开始生活》、《未知的林肯》和其它几本书。
英汉智慧语录 English and Chinese Brainy Quotes
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
记住, 今天就是你昨天在担忧的明天。
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
去做你害怕做的事，并坚持去做，这是你征服恐惧的最快、最可靠的方法。
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
所有艺术的本质是在给予快乐中获得快乐。
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
我所知道的人性中最可悲的地方在于人人都不去生活 , 却梦想着天边奇幻的玫瑰园 , 而没有去欣赏今天绽放在我们窗外的玫瑰。
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.
你不会在争辩中获胜。之所以不能是因为, 如果你输了,你就是输了；如果你赢了,你还是输了。
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
我们与世界接触有四种方式，也只有这四种方式。 同时人们也通过这四种接触方式来评估我们: 我们做什么，我们的外表，我们说什么，以及我们怎么说。
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.
许多人认为，如果他们只是在其它的地方，或有一份其它的工作，他们会很快乐。嗯，这值得怀疑。所以尽量从你正在做的事情中获得快乐，不要把快乐推迟到未来的某个日子。
“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.
决定你快乐与否的不是你拥有什么，你是谁，你在哪里，或你在做什么, 而是你在想什么。
Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
幸福不依赖于任何外在条件，而取决于我们的心态。
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
我们的疲惫往往不是由工作引起的，而是由担忧、沮丧和怨恨引起的。
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
为自己难过，为自己现在的状况难过，不仅是浪费精力，也是你可能会有的最坏习惯。
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
你厌倦生活了吗?然后投入到你全心全意相信的工作中去，为之而生，为之而死，你就会找到你曾经认为永远不可能得到的幸福。
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.
通过对他人感兴趣，而不是通过让别人对你感兴趣，你在两个月内交到的朋友比你两年内交的朋友还多。
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.
一个向外界寻求所有掌声的人把他们的幸福掌握在别人手里。
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
无为滋生疑虑和恐惧。行动孕育自信和勇气。
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
赢得争论的唯一方法是避免它。
Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
表现得好像你已经很快乐，这也会让你更快乐。
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.”当我们恨我们的敌人时，我们就给了他们控制我们的力量: 控制我们的睡眠、食欲、血压、健康和幸福。
Don’t ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time.不要问什么对一个人来说是重要的。看看他是如何打发时间的。
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
任何傻瓜都能批评、谴责和抱怨——大多数傻瓜确实如此。但是理解和原谅需要品格和自我控制。
If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.
如果你为别人做了什么，千万别记得。如果有人为你做了什么，永远不要忘记。
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
当你和人打交道时，记住你不是在和逻辑生物打交道，而是在和情感生物打交道。
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.
如果你不是处在你想成为的那个人的过程中，你就会自动地陷入成为你不想成为的那个人的过程中。
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
首先问自己: 最坏的结果是什么? 然后准备好接受它。然后在最坏的情况下继续改进。
For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
记住，恐惧不存在于任何地方，只存在于你的脑海里。
