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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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Dale Carnegie

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

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.

Dale Carnegie

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Dale Carnegie

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Dale Carnegie

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.

Dale Carnegie

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Dale Carnegie

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Dale Carnegie

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.

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

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Dale Carnegie

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?

Dale Carnegie

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Dale Carnegie

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Dale Carnegie

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

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