Dale Carnegie famous quotes

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Sweet #Grandchildren #Literature

Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Encouragement #Use #Faults

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

#Inspirational #Success #Encouraging

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Love You #People #Giving

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
-- Dale Carnegie

This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Men #Giving #Age

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Errors #Degrees #Satisfaction

The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Appreciation #Selfish #Heart

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Fear #Self Esteem

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Selfish #Trying #Why Not

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Order #Giving #Direct

So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments
-- Dale Carnegie

#Accomplishment #Interesting #Enjoy

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Success #Passion

Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?
-- Dale Carnegie

#May #Want #Tomorrow

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

#Success #Sorry #Life And Love

If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.
-- Dale Carnegie

#One Day #Cost #World

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Way #Busy #Defeat

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Ideas #Mind #Progress

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
-- Dale Carnegie

#Silver

Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Views #Trying #Honest

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Encouragement #Criticism #Ability

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

To be interesting, be interested.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Interesting

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Hurt #Pride #Criticism

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Mistake #Criticize #Persons

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Success #Fear

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

#Important #Feels #Sincerely

One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Worry #Decision #Mind

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 Carnegie

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Gratitude #Character #Self

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Funny #Faith #Time

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Motivational #Sports

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

#Success #Fear #People

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Motivational #Fear

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Success #Courage #Fear

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Morning #People #Noon

If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Expression #Ideas #Mind

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Motivational #Encouragement #Entrepreneur

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Motivational #Clouds #People

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Attitude #Inspiration #Victory

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".
-- Dale Carnegie

#Life Is Too Short #Life Is Short #Upset

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Motivational #Stay Strong

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Appreciation #Giving #Honest

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Life #Human Nature #Tragic

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 Carnegie

#Life #Motivational #Positive

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Happiness #Feelings #Way

Become genuinely interested in other people.
-- Dale Carnegie

#People

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Want #Becoming

It isn't work that makes you tired, it's your mental attitude.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Attitude #Tired #Mental Attitude

Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Good Listener

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Hate #Sleep #Blood

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

#Success #Fear #Not Giving Up

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Marketing #Hours

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Bridges #Giving #Understanding

if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !
-- Dale Carnegie

#Want #Share

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Letting Go #Years

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Cute #Friendship

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Ignorance #Trouble #Inaction

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

#Relationship #Emotional #People

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Winning #People #Becoming

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Simple #Names #People

The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Memories #Home #Giving

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

#Believe #Selling #If You Believe

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Thinking #Ideas #Why Not

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Kindness #People #Tolerance

Let the other person save face.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Faces #Persons

Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Loss #Order #Worry

Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Enthusiasm #Ingredients #Vitality

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

#Motivational #People #Want

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Lonely #World #Want

In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Talking #Differences #People

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Life #World #Way

...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Enthusiasm #Today #Way

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

#Inspirational #Happiness #Attitude

Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Men #Laughing #Way

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

#Motivational #Inspiring #Success

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.' That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Dog #I Like You #You Make Me Happy

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Wind #Live For Today #Gusto

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Gratitude #Thinking #Giving

Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Self #Worry #Decision

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Kindness #May #Today

Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Appreciation #Honest #Praise

The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us; and rare is the man who searches for his opportunity or sees one even when he stumbles over it.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Eye #Opportunity #Men

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Happiness #Jobs #Thinking

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Winning #Names

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Happiness #Horse #Bird

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Interest #Term #Persons

Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal,
-- Dale Carnegie

#Moving #Goal #Mind

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Inspirational #Motivational #Communication

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

#Motivational #Careers #Criticism

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

#People #Needs #Obvious

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.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Life #Motivational #Time

Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Mistake #Errors #Looks

Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgment, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.
-- Dale Carnegie

#Change #Hurt #Pride