Quotes by
Dale Carnegie |
1888-1955 , American self-help writer
American writer and lecturer, and the developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936), a bestseller that remains popular today. He wrote another bestseller: “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” (1948). | 45 quotes | 1,552 visits |
Quotations
| • | Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours. 7 |
| • | Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. 6 |
| • | Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. 5 |
| • | Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. 4 |
| • | Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do. 3 |
| • | 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? |
| • | Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. |
| • | The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. |
| • | Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.” |
| • | One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. |
| • | 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. |
| • | If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others. |
| • | When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener |
| • | Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied. |
| • | 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. |
| • | An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing. |
| • | Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. |
| • | Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away. |
| • | Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. |
| • | 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. |
| • | The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. |
| • | You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. |
| • | The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world. |
| • | The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there. |
| • | If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. |
| • | 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. |
| • | If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. |
| • | An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.” |
| • | If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested. |
| • | People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves. |
| • | Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. |
| • | People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons. |
| • | Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still. |
| • | For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. |
| • | If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. |
| • | Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said. |
| • | 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. |
