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Dale Carnegie Famous Quotations

Dale Carnegie (1888 - 1955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. These famous quotes dealing with goals, achievement, and success have been attributed to him.

• Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
• Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
• 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.
• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
• Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
• 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.
• 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.
• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
• Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
• First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
• Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
• Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
• If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible.
• 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.
• Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
• 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 person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
• 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.
• There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
• Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
• 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.
• We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
• 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.
• 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.
• You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.