Dale Carnegie

"My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people."

the genuine conviction and feeling of the modest clerk, speaking on a subject that lay deep in his heart, not only electrified his audience but won their personal sympathy for the cause he advocated

Nature is forever putting a premium on reality." What is false is soon detected as such

Do not let your words say one thing, and your voice and attitude another.

no man adequate to do anything, but is first of all in right earnest about it;

The average speaker is afraid to let himself go, and continually suppresses his emotions. When you put enough feeling into your speeches they will sound overdone to you, unless you are an experienced speaker.

They will sound too strong, if you are not used to enlarging for platform or stage

for the delineation of the emotions must be enlarged for public delivery.

going back in your imagination to the time and circumstances that brought it forth. Make it not a memorized historical document, but feel the emotions that gave it birth. The speech is only an effect; live over in your own heart the causes that produced it and try to deliver it at white heat. It is not possible for you to put too much real feeling into it, though of course it would be quite easy to rant and fill it with false emotion

whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.