Dale Carnegie Quotes

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

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.

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

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

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

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.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

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.

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.

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.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.