Dale Carnegie Quotes

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

Success, Failure, Two

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

Business, Hope, Important

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

Happiness, Attitude, Mental

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

Yourself, Sorry, Feeling

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

Motivational, Home, Fear

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

Nature, Today, Human

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

Success, Happiness, Getting

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

Courage, Home, Fear

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.
Dale Carnegie

Sleep, Worry, Lying

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Fun, Succeed, Unless

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie

Remember, Emotion, Logic

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

Happy, Makes, Unhappy

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

Life, Work, Happiness

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

Success, Successful, Mistakes

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Sense, Makes

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie

Work, Worry, Often

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie

Happiness, Remember, Depends

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie

Time, Trying, Why

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

Fear, Mind, Except

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.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Today, Yourself

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, Keep, Conquer

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie

Fate, Hands, Lemonade

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie

Important, Woman, Her

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

Four, Ways, Contact

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Chance, Goes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 24, 1888

Died: November 1, 1955

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