Quotes By Dale Carnegie

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

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

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

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.

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

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.

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.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

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

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

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

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

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.

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.

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

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

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

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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.

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.