Dale Carnegie Quotes

1. "Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
   Dale Carnegie
   Enthusiasm




2. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."
   Dale Carnegie
   Forgiveness




3. "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 blooming outside our windows today."
   Dale Carnegie
   Quote of The Day




4. Nobody was more amazed than I was when the book (How To Win Friends and Influence People) began to sell up in those figures.
   Dale Carnegie
   Amazing




5. "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
   Defeat




6. But the person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people - that person is headed for higher earning power.
   Dale Carnegie, How to win friends & influence people
   Leadership




7. "When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."
   Dale Carnegie
   Motivational




8. "Practise, practise, PRACTISE in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practise in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking."
   Dale Carnegie, The Art Of Public Speaking
   Fear





9. "You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing."
   Dale Carnegie
   Success   |




10. "The gaining of self-confidence and courage and the ability to think calmly and clearly while talking to a group is not one-tenth as difficult as most men imagine."
    Dale Carnegie, Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking
    Confidence




11. "To develop courage when you are facing an audience, act as if you already have it."
    Dale Carnegie, Develop Self-Confidence, Improve Public Speaking
    Courage




12. "Over-confidence is bad, but to tolerate premonitions of failure is worse, for a bold man may win attention by his very bearing, while a rabbit-hearted coward invites disaster."
    Dale Carnegie, The Art Of Public Speaking
    Tolerance




13. "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
    Memory




14. "So let's be content to live the only time we can possibly live: from now until bedtime."
    Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
    Live Life




15. "All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust."
    Dale Carnegie
    Cute Quotes




16. "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 happines that you had thought could never be yours."
    Dale Carnegie
    Life





17. "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
    Quotes about Change




18. "Just because the means of communication are readily available doesn't mean that people have learned to communicate well."
    Dale Carnegie, The Leader in You
    Communication




19. "On the other hand, one of the most important means of developing power in public speaking is to pause either before or after, or both before and after, an important word or phrase."
    Dale Carnegie
    Your Weakness




20. "Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again."
    Dale Carnegie, How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job
    Be Yourself




21. Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.
    Dale Carnegie
    Actions Speak Louder Than Words Quotes




22. "If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until, death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism - no matter how certain we are that it is justified."
    Dale Carnegie, How to win friends and influence people
    Gossip




23. "If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable."
    Dale Carnegie
    Happy




24. "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




25. "Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
    Dale Carnegie
    Positive Thinking





26. "If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will."
    Dale Carnegie
    Believe




27. "So take the offensive against your fears. Go out to meet them, battle them, conquer them by sheer boldness at every opportunity."
    Dale Carnegie
    Bold




28. "Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty - a future that no one can possibly foretell?"
    Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
    Future




29. "Your self-confidence strengthens as you learn to speak to others, and your whole personality grows warmer and better. This means that you are better off emotionally, and if you are better off emotionally, you are better off physically."
    Dale Carnegie, The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
    Health





30. "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
    Attitude




31. "Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars…or your two legs… or your hands…or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them."
    Dale Carnegie
    Appreciation




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




33. "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
    Work





34. "When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade."
    Dale Carnegie
    Funny Quotes




35. "If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying."
    Dale Carnegie
    Funny Quotes about Life




36. "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
    Friend




37. "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."
    Dale Carnegie
    Top Ten Quotes on Worry





38. "Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
    Dale Carnegie
    Communication Apprehension




39. "If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?"
    Dale Carnegie
    Define Interpersonal Skills




40. "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
    Habits