QuoteProject
Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.
Dale Carnegie
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

Show genuine appreciation for others to strengthen relationships.

This quote emphasizes the importance of making others feel valued and significant in interactions. By treating people with sincerity and respect, we foster stronger connections and enhance our relationships, which can lead to mutual respect and admiration.

Themes

ImportanceSincerityRelationshipsAppreciationValue

In practice

Example use cases

During a team meeting, you can quote this to remind others of the importance of valuing their colleagues.

More from Dale Carnegie

When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
Dale CarnegieRead
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale CarnegieRead
By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
Dale CarnegieRead
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.
Dale CarnegieRead
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Dale CarnegieRead
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale CarnegieRead

Similar quotes

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SalingerRead
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.
Dorothy L. SayersRead
Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.
Emily BronteRead
She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
Oprah WinfreyRead
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiRead
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.
Francois TruffautRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.