Quotes By Dale Carnegie

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.