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Dale Carnegie Quotes

Total quotes: 28
“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, Make Yourself Unforgettable: How to Become the Person Everyone Remembers and No One Can Resist
Tagged: Self-Help, Advice, Worrying, Sleep
“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
Tagged: Vanity, People, Social Interactions, Human Interaction, Human Social Dynamics, Governing Social Dynamics
“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
Tagged: Hate, enemies, Anxiety, strength
“We sit there and complain that we're not being given opportunities or chances. Meanwhile, moments like these are there to be seized–the chance is there, take it!”
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
Tagged: Duty
“Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.”
— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
Tagged: Criticism, Critical, Being Critical, Harmful Critics, Critics, haters
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
— Dale Carnegie, How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job
Tagged: Intelligence, wise, Knowledge, Secret
“Instead of the question 'What most I do for my employer?' substitute 'what can I do?'”
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
Tagged: Life
“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
Tagged: Friends Tips, Relationships, small talk
“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 & Influence People
Tagged: Fear, Bravery, victory
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failures are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
— Dale Carnegie
Tagged: Motivational Quotes
“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, 5 Quotes to Inspire You When You Feel Like You Have Lost Hope
Tagged: Tough Love, accomplishments, Hope, No Hope
“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
Tagged: Friends, How To Make Friends, Friendship, How To Earn Friends, How To Be Interesting
“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, How To Win Friends and Influence People
Tagged: forgiveness, Self-Control, Empathy, Understanding
“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, How to Win Friends & Influence People
Tagged: Confidence, Action, Motivational
“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, How to Win Friends & Influence People
Tagged: Happiness, Thoughts, Optimism
“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 & Influence People
“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, Fear Of Love Sayings and Quotes
Tagged: Fear Of Love, Dating
“Instead of condemning people, let’s try to understand them. Let’s try to figure out why they do what they do.”
— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
Tagged: Be Kind, Be Nice, How To Be A Good Person, What Good People Do, Why People Are The Way They Are, Don't Shame, Love Not Critique
“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
Tagged: Social Anxiety, Social, Friends, Self Help
“The secret of his success? ‘I will speak ill of no man,’ he said, ‘. . and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
Tagged: Relationships, Friendships, Enhancing Relationships
“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.”
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
Tagged: Obsessive Comparison Disorder
“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, "Dreaming," Dale Carnegie's Thoughts On Freedom And Happiness by Michael Miles
Tagged: Human Nature, Grass I Always Greener, Life, Life Experience, Living Your Life
“The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.”
— Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
Tagged: How People Feel, Recognize Goodness In Others, Human Social Dynamics
“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.”
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
Tagged: Friends, Friends Tips, Making Friends
“We are interested in others when they are interested in us”
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
Tagged: Enhancing Relationships, Social Skills, Relationship
“IN A NUTSHELL SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU PRINCIPLE

1 Become genuinely interested in other people. 

2 Smile. 

3 Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

4 Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.

5 Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.

6 Make the other person feel important—and do it sincerely.”
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
Tagged: Social Tips, Making Friends, Relationship Advice
“Ted, I want you to 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. When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.”
— 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 & Influence People
Tagged: Friendship, Wants, Needs
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