Dale Carnegie Quotes

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

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

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

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.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

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.

This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time

The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.

90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

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

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

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

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".

Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.

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.

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

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

Become genuinely interested in other people.

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

Believe you will be successful and you will.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

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

Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !

Take a chance! All life is a chance

A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

The thing is to get the work done.