The Best Dale Carnegie quotes

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. — Dale Carnegie

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. — Dale Carnegie

All things are ready if the mind be so. — Dale Carnegie

Abe Lincoln once remarked that ‘most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.’ He was right. — Dale Carnegie

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it. — Dale Carnegie

When you’re afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid. — Dale Carnegie

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused. — Dale Carnegie

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind. — Dale Carnegie

Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind. — Dale Carnegie

I’ve found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess. — Dale Carnegie

The Mind in the Making. — Dale Carnegie

By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing. — Dale Carnegie

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

We move toward what we picture in our minds. — Dale Carnegie

Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. — Dale Carnegie

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy. — Dale Carnegie

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. — Dale Carnegie

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

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

Talk to anyone about himself positively and he’ll listen without interruption. — Dale Carnegie

Create happiness for others. — Dale Carnegie

Remember happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have it depends solely upon what you think. — Dale Carnegie

If you want to keep happiness , you have to share it ! — Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping . — Dale Carnegie

There is only one way to happiness,’ Epictetus taught the Romans, ‘and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. — Dale Carnegie

Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. — Dale Carnegie

My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people. — Dale Carnegie

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. — Dale Carnegie

Let’s fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking. — Dale Carnegie

Give honest and sincere appreciation. — Dale Carnegie

Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to. — Dale Carnegie

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. — Dale Carnegie

Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get. — Dale Carnegie

Three–fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you. I — Dale Carnegie

Principle 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. 3 — Dale Carnegie

Principle 1 Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. PRINCIPLE 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation. PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want. — Dale Carnegie

If we want to find happiness, let’s stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving. — Dale Carnegie

It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. — Dale Carnegie

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. if you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. — Dale Carnegie

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I’ll tell you their philosophy of life. — Dale Carnegie

Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all. — Dale Carnegie

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding. — Dale Carnegie

This is a hurried age we’re living in. If you’ve got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk. — Dale Carnegie

Put a ‘stop–loss’ order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth–and refuse to give it any more. — Dale Carnegie

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes–and most fools do–but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one’s mistakes. — Dale Carnegie

People aren’t interested in you. They’re interested in themselves — Dale Carnegie

To be interesting, be interested. — Dale Carnegie

Become genuinely interested in other people. — Dale Carnegie

Publilius Syrus, remarked: ‘We are interested in others when they are interested in us. — Dale Carnegie

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested. — Dale Carnegie

So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. — Dale Carnegie

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves–morning, noon and after dinner. — Dale Carnegie

To be genuinely interested in other people is a most important quality for a sales–person to possess–for any person, for that matter. — Dale Carnegie

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way. — Dale Carnegie

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. — Dale Carnegie

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. — Dale Carnegie

The average person is more interested in his or her own name than in all the other names on earth put together. — Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months by being interested in other people than in two years of trying to get people interested in you. — Dale Carnegie

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect. — Dale Carnegie

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought–after people by becoming genuinely interested in them. — Dale Carnegie

In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self–improvement will seek to improve. — Dale Carnegie

The thing is to get the work done. — Dale Carnegie

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

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all? — Dale Carnegie

What is the answer to this fatigue? Relax! Relax! Relax! Learn to relax while you are doing your work! — Dale Carnegie

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

You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing? — Dale Carnegie

People work for money but go the extra mile for praise, recognition, and rewards. — Dale Carnegie

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid. — Dale Carnegie

The farmers who were hiring Lincoln complained that he was lazy, ‘awful lazy.’ He admitted it. ‘My father taught me to work,’ he said, ‘but he never taught me to love it. — Dale Carnegie

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. — Dale Carnegie

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. — Dale Carnegie

Letting the other person feel that the idea is his or hers not only works in business and politics, it works in family life as well. — Dale Carnegie

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. — Dale Carnegie

It isn’t work that makes you tired, it’s your mental attitude. — Dale Carnegie

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. — Dale Carnegie

Don’t you know I am just as busy as you are–or, at least, I like to think I am. — Dale Carnegie

You can’t get anywhere in this world without wanting to do something. — Dale Carnegie

People support a world they helped create. — Dale Carnegie

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

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world–and loses his health? — Dale Carnegie

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself–forget about the impression you are trying to make. — Dale Carnegie

Stop AND LOOK out the window and see how beautiful the world is. It is there–enjoy it. Go out tonight and look up at the stars. They are the wonders of nature — Dale Carnegie

If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won’t cost you a penny in the world. Begin today. — Dale Carnegie

First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way. — Dale Carnegie

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. — Dale Carnegie

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. — Dale Carnegie

Shaw once remarked: ‘If you teach a man anything, he will never learn. — Dale Carnegie

Bernard Shaw once remarked: ‘If you teach a man anything, he will never learn. — Dale Carnegie

Every man I meet is my superior in some way, In that, I learn of him. — Dale Carnegie

Remember what Emerson said: ‘Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him. — Dale Carnegie

Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people. — Dale Carnegie

An animal rewarded for good behavior will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behavior. Later — Dale Carnegie

Shaw once remarked: ‘If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.’ Shaw was right. Learning is an active process. We learn by doing. — Dale Carnegie

You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing. — Dale Carnegie

The secret of his success? ‘I will speak ill of no man,’ he said, ‘. . and speak all the good I know of everybody. — Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want.. Happiness is wanting what you get. — Dale Carnegie

Become meaningful in your interactions and the path to success in any endeavor is simpler and far more sustainable. — Dale Carnegie

If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before. — Dale Carnegie

Success in dealing with people depends on a sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint. — Dale Carnegie

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

Is enthusiasm important in selling? Yes, genuine, heartfelt enthusiasm is one of the most potent factors of success in almost any undertaking. — Dale Carnegie

Can any man possibly be a success who is paying for business advancement with stomach ulcers and heart trouble? — Dale Carnegie

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. — Dale Carnegie

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