Quotes by Dale Carnegie

About Dale Carnegie:

Dale Harbison Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), a massive bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), Lincoln the Unknown (1932), and several other books.
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Dale Carnegie

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Dale Carnegie

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Dale Carnegie

Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as rea...

Dale Carnegie

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

Dale Carnegie

The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise.

Dale Carnegie

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.

Dale Carnegie

The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universal...

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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.

Dale Carnegie

We are gods in the chrysalis.

Dale Carnegie

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

Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie

Let's realise that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realise that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify himself o herself, and condemn us in return.

Dale Carnegie

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.

Dale Carnegie

I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: "He is nothing but a boy -- a little boy!

Dale Carnegie

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do."(...) You can say that and be 100 percent sincere, because if you were the other person you, of course, would feel just as he does (...) Suppose ...

Dale Carnegie

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

Dale Carnegie

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others.

Dale Carnegie

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

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i really like reading books

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Author Bio

  • NameDale Carnegie
  • DescriptionAmerican writer and lecturer
  • BornNovember 24, 1888
  • DiedNovember 1, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Motivational Speaker; Teacher
  • WorksHow To Win Friends And Influence People