Dale Carnegie Quotes

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.

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.

You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.

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

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

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

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.

If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

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?

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

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.

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.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.