Dale Carnegie Quotes (114) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (originally Carnagey until 1922 and possibly somewhat later) (November 24, 1888 - November 1, 1955) was an American writer, 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. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's behavior toward them. See website for more info - http://www.dalecarnegie.com/
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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, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“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, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
― 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
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain--and most do.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ”
― 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
“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, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“People rarely succeed unless they have
fun in what they are doing.”
― 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
“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.”
― 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
“Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?”
― 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
“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
“Our thoughts make us what we are.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“No matter what happens, always be yourself.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
― Dale Carnegie
“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.”
― 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
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
― Dale Carnegie
“One of the 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.”
― Dale Carnegie
l“...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“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
“Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.”
― Dale Carnegie
“When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“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
“We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today”
― 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, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.”
― 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
“Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to. ”
― Dale Carnegie
“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
― Dale Carnegie
“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
― Dale Carnegie
“You can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry”
― Dale Carnegie
“Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book "The Origin Of Species" he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizing his conclusions.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“There is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .”
― Dale Carnegie
“Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt
ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never
waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“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
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Nobody kicks a dead dog”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“That is the way Emerson said it. But here is the way a poet -the late Douglas Malloch said it:
If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill.
Be a scrub in the valley-but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush, if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass.
If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass-
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew.
There's something for all of us here.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star;
It isn't by the size that you win or you fail-
Be the best of whatever you are!”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another."
Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer?
Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very
thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“You can make more friends in two months by being interested in other people than in two years of trying to get people interested in you.”
― Dale Carnegie
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”
― Dale Carnegie
“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.”
― Dale Carnegie
“A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?"
Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still.”
― Dale Carnegie
“You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing”
― Dale Carnegie
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. :)”
― Dale Carnegie
“Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday.”
― Dale Carnegie
“When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.”
― Dale Carnegie
“If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.”
― Dale Carnegie
“If you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end.
So what is there to worry about?”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of
England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think
of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy”
― Dale Carnegie
“Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude”
― 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
“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”
― Dale Carnegie
“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Most of the important things in the world were accomplished by people who have kept trying when there seemed to be no hope at all”
― Dale Carnegie
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.”
― 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
“Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass...slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and
try again in a different way.”
― Dale Carnegie
“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
― Dale Carnegie, The Leader in You
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
― Dale Carnegie
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
― Dale Carnegie
“One of the most distinguished psychiatrists living, Dr. Carl Jung, says in his book Modern Man in Search of a Soul (*):
"During the past thirty years, people from all the civilised countries of the earth have consulted me. I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life-that is to say, over thirty-five-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to
bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and
resignation that touched the hem of divinity.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.”
― Dale Carnegie
“If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Confusion is the main cause of worry”
― Dale Carnegie
“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“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
“We are gods in the chrysalis.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Monotony reveals our limitations.”
― Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking
“Winning friends begins with friendliness.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.”
― Dale Carnegie
“You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Always avoid the acute angle.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that "everything changes except the law of change". He said: "You cannot step in the same river twice." The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?”
― Dale Carnegie
“Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.”
― Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking
“John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“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".”
― Dale Carnegie
“Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.”
― Dale Carnegie
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