Dale Carnegie Quotes

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Dale Carnegie

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 24, 1888

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

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

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Dale Carnegie

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

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

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

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Dale Carnegie

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.

Dale Carnegie

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

Dale Carnegie

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Dale Carnegie

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

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.

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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

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Dale Carnegie

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

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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.

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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Dale Carnegie