Dale Carnegie Motivational Quotations

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

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

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

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

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

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

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.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.

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.

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.

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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.