Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie

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American writer and lecturer Dale Carnegie has a gift for language that makes complex ideas feel instantly clear. With equal ease, Dale Carnegie moved between Success and Fear, finding connections others missed. Browse 46 quotes by Dale Carnegie that cover ground from Success, Fear, Happiness, Best, and Work. Here is a taste of their wisdom: "The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."

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“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

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

— Dale Carnegie

Fear

“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.”

— Dale Carnegie

Best

“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”

— Dale Carnegie

Art

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

— Dale Carnegie

Failure

“Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

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

— Dale Carnegie

Success

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

— Dale Carnegie

Happiness

“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

Best

“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

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”

— Dale Carnegie

Work

“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”

— Dale Carnegie

Fear

“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

“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .”

— Dale Carnegie

Happiness

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

— Dale Carnegie

Success

“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

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

— Dale Carnegie

Happiness

“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.”

— Dale Carnegie

Age

“Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.”

— Dale Carnegie

Patriotism

“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

Happiness