Dale Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Born into poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, a bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Lincoln the Unknown, and several other books. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people’s behavior by changing one’s behavior toward them. He is considered one of the most influential people in modern times.
May his quotes inspire you to become a person of success so that you live your dreams.
Dale Carnegie Quotes that will inspire your life
- “Action breeds confidence and courage.” Dale Carnegie
- “Develop success from failure. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” Dale Carnegie
- “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” Dale Carnegie
- “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
- “Rule number one: Don’t criticize, condemn, or complain.” Dale Carnegie
- “Be concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” Dale Carnegie
- “Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” Dale Carnegie
- “When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic but creatures of emotion.” Dale Carnegie
- “People like people who help them like themselves.” Dale Carnegie
- “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” Dale Carnegie
- “Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” Dale Carnegie
- “The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.” Dale Carnegie
- “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
- “The only way on earth to influence the other fellow is to talk about what he wants and show him how to get it.” Dale Carnegie
- “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.” Dale Carnegie
- “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” Dale Carnegie
- “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do.” Dale Carnegie
- “Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” Dale Carnegie
- “Three-fourths of the people you will meet tomorrow are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them and they will love you.” Dale Carnegie
- “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” Dale Carnegie
- “Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.” Dale Carnegie
- “Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.” Dale Carnegie
- “If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.” Dale Carnegie
- “An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.” Dale Carnegie
- “Our thoughts make us what we are.” Dale Carnegie
- “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
- “If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” Dale Carnegie
- “Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.” Dale Carnegie
- “Our fatigue is often caused not by work but by worry, frustration, and resentment.” Dale Carnegie
- “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Dale Carnegie
- “Keep busy. It’s the cheapest kind of medicine there is.” Dale Carnegie
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” Dale Carnegie
