46 Quotes By Dale Carnegie


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.
Dale Carnegie on age

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie on art

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

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 on best

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.
Dale Carnegie on best

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie on best

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

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 on business

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.
Dale Carnegie on business

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.
Dale Carnegie on business

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.
Dale Carnegie on courage

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie on courage

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie on failure

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

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.
Dale Carnegie on fear

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie on fear

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 on fear

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 on fear

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie on fear

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