Dale Carnegie Quotes

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Dale Carnegie

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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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 the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie

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

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie

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

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

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Dale Carnegie

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale Carnegie

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie

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

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
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

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

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie