Quotes By Dale Carnegie

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.