Quotes By Dale Carnegie

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

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.

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.

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

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