51 Quotes by Dale Carnegie

• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
• 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.
• The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
• 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?
• The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
• Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
• Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
• Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
• We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
• The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
• 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.
• 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.
• There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
• 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.
• If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
• When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
• Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
• 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.
• Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
• Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
• 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.
• Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
• If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
• Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
• First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
• Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
• 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.
• 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.
• If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
• 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.
• Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
• If you want to conquer fear, don't sit still. Go out and get busy.
• I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade.
• Success often comes to those who dare and act; it seldom goes to the timid, who are ever afraid of the consequences.
• Success is like a ladder; you can’t climb it with your hands in your pockets.

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