Dale Carnegie Quotes

Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

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

Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.

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.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.

The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.

If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.

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?

You are something new in this world. 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.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.

People like people who help them like themselves.

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

Develop success from failures.

If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

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.

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

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.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.