Dale Carnegie Quotations

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

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

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

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.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

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

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.

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.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

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

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

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.

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.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

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

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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.

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.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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.

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.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

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

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

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.

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 be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

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

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious / because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Keep on raging - to stop the aging.

Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language.

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think

The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was. . . . For it is those things - and only those things - that made him what he was. . . . You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?

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

Nobody kicks a dead dog

An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?

Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don't you do it?

Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

Always avoid the acute angle.

Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

I tend to think shorts are too casual That's just not businesslike.

Everyone should have a deep-seated interest or hobby to enrich his mind, add zest to living, and perhaps, depending upon what it is, result in a service to his country.

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.

We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice.

Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.

i really like reading books

90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?

(A smile) costs nothing, but creates much.

You can't get anywhere in this world without wanting to do something.

There is a reason why the other person thinks and acts as they do. Ferret out that reason - and you have the key to their actions, perhaps to their personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.

Your smile is a messenger of your goodwill.

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don't have to show it off. The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.