Dale Carnegie Quotes

Browse 21 quotes from Dale Carnegie, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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An hour of planning can save you 10 hours of doing.
— Dale Carnegie
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seem to be small jobs. Every time you conquer one, it makes you that much stronger.
— Dale Carnegie
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
— Dale Carnegie
Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
— Dale Carnegie
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
— Dale Carnegie
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
— Dale Carnegie
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
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 it.
— Dale Carnegie
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
— Dale Carnegie
The best way to win an argument is to avoid it.
— Dale Carnegie
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
— Dale Carnegie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
— Dale Carnegie
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
— 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 other people interested in you.
— Dale Carnegie
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
— 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
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
— Dale Carnegie
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
— Dale Carnegie
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
— Dale Carnegie
Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.
— Dale Carnegie
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
— Dale Carnegie

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