Do you want to make friends? Be friendly. Forget yourself.
– Dale Carnegie
Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don’t you do it?
– 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
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that
never happened.”
– Dale Carnegie
Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely
on what you think.
– Dale Carnegie
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is
willing to do and dare.
– Dale Carnegie
When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.
– Dale Carnegie
Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can’t listen to the music of the meadow or the
symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than
wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.
– 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
You’ll never achieve real success unless you like what you’re doing.
– Dale Carnegie
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business.
Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
– 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
Do things for others and you’ll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.
– 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
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
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress
other birds and horses.
– Dale Carnegie
Our thoughts make us what we are.
– Dale Carnegie
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How?
By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged.
– Dale Carnegie
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.
– 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.
– Dale Carnegie
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
– Dale Carnegie
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
– Dale Carnegie
Those who don’t know how to fight worry, die young.
– Dale Carnegie
The expression one wears on one’s face is far more important than the clothes one wears on
one’s back.
– Dale Carnegie
Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars… or your two legs… or your hands… or
your hearing? Add up what you have, and you’ll find that you wouldn’t sell it all for all the
gold in the world.
– Dale Carnegie
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you
pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember
my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
– Dale Carnegie
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.
– 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
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
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive. If only the people who worry about
their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
– Dale Carnegie
One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give
consideration to his opinion, to let him sustain his feeling of importance.
– 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
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
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most
frequently makes for success.
– Dale Carnegie
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
– Dale Carnegie
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason
why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds
and horses.
– 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 essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
– 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
Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
– 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 will tend to
take care of themselves.
– Dale Carnegie
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
– Dale Carnegie
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest
stepping-stones to success.
– Dale Carnegie
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to
conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
– 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
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
– Dale Carnegie
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.
– Dale Carnegie
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
– Dale Carnegie
Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Let the winds of
enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
– Dale Carnegie
3/4 of the people you will meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy and attention. Give it
to them, and they will love you.
– Dale Carnegie
You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your
experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you
must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
– Dale Carnegie
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement.
– Dale Carnegie
Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
– Dale Carnegie
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in different way.
– Dale Carnegie
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
– Dale Carnegie
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.
– Dale Carnegie
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
– Dale Carnegie
We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the
roses blooming outside our windows today.
– Dale Carnegie
Our fatigue is often caused not by work; but by worry, frustration and resentment.
– Dale Carnegie
Learning is an active process. We learn by doing. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your
mind.
– Dale Carnegie
There is only one way to get anybody to do anything. And this is by making the other person
want to do it.
– Dale Carnegie
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.
– Dale Carnegie
Even God doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
– Dale Carnegie
The man 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
Do you know the most important trait a man can have? It is not executive ability; it is not a
great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these
is of tremendous importance. In my opinion, it is the ability to make friends, which, boiled
down, means the ability to see the best in man.
– Dale Carnegie
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
– Dale Carnegie
Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.
– Dale Carnegie