Quotes by Dale Carnegie (Page 2 of 2)

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

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

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

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

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

To be interesting, be interested.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

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.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

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

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

In order to make friends you must first be friendly.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

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.

Take charge of your attitude.
Don't let someone else choose it for you.

The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

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

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 it.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

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

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.

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.

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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

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

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

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.