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Dale Carnegie is one of the most influential writers of all time. His book How to Win Friends and Influence People became a bestseller in 1929 and has sold over 10 million copies. He was an author, lecturer, and motivational speaker who encouraged people to find their success by making others happy, helping them, and creating a mutually beneficial relationship.
Books like How to Win Friends and Influence People encouraged people to find their success by making others happy, helping them, and creating a mutually beneficial relationship.
He died in 1955 at the age of 83 due to a stroke that he contracted at the lecture he was giving in Illinois just before his death.
He was a leading advisor on how to change your personality type into one that does not need to be overly aggressive. He believed that the way to go about handling people is through their emotions. The principles he teaches are still being used in other ways today.
Check out his inspirational Quotes that will encourage you to succeed and reach your goals.
79 Most Inspiring Dale Carnegie Quotes
“To be interesting, be interested.”
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”
“Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
“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.”
“Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.”
“For better or worse, you must play your own instrument in the orchestra of life.”
“Winning friends begins with friendliness.”
“Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.”
“We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.”
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment”
“If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.”
“Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.”
“If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.”
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
“An hour of planning can save you 10 hours og doing.”
“Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
“You can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.”
“Remember happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think”
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
“We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”
“There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.”
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.’”
“It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.”
“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”
“I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it.”
“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”
“Be concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
“Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.”
“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.”
“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.”
“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
“Action breeds confidence and courage.”
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do.”
“By fighting, you never get enough – but by yielding, you get more than you expected.”
“You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.”
“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.”
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”
“Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.”
“People like people who help them like themselves.”
“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.”
“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.”
“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”
“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”
“Keep busy. It’s the cheapest kind of medicine there is.”
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
“Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting.”
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”
“Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.”
“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.”
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible”
“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 will tend to take care of themselves.”
“Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.”
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
“If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.”
“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.”
“You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.”
“Rule number one: Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain.”
“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 want to keep happiness, you have to share it.”
“Our thoughts make us what we are.”
“Three-fourths of the people you will meet tomorrow are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them and they will love you.”
“Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?”
“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
“Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.”
“Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires.”
“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.”
“When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic but creatures of emotion.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
