Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Dale Carnegie (American Self-Help Author)

Dale Harbison Carnegie (1888–1955,) originally Dale Carnegey, was an American lecturer, author, and innovator in the field of public speaking and the psychology of the successful personality. He is the author of the perennial self-help bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936.) Carnegie benefited from the American desire for success by peddling advice that helped readers feel and become successful.

Carnegie was born in Maryville, Missouri. His family lived poorly on a small farm during his childhood. He worked as a salesperson and an actor before moving to New York City to teach public speaking at the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA.) When his courses got popular, he standardized his teaching methods by publishing pamphlets. He collected these into book form as Public Speaking: A Practical Course for Business Men (1926.) He also compiled Little Known Facts About Well Known People (1934.)

In 1936, Carnegie published How to Win Friends and Influence People, which offered anecdotes, advice, homespun wisdom, and an unfaltering belief in the public and private benefits of positive thinking. At the back of the book’s enormous popularity, he established hundreds of branches of the Dale Carnegie Institute for effective speaking and human relations, which registered 50,000 people a year at the time of his death.

Dale Carnegie was not related to the Scottish-American steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, but changed the spelling of his last name from “Carnagey” at a time when Andrew Carnegie was a widely recognized name.

Carnegie also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948,) Lincoln the Unknown (1932,) and several other books.

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Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Business

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Flattery

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Life and Living

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Mistakes

Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
Dale Carnegie

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Forgiveness

Your heart pumps enough blood through your body every day to fill a railway tank car. It exerts enough energy every twenty-four hours to shovel twenty tons of coal onto a platform three feet high. It does this incredible amount of work for fifty, seventy, or maybe ninety years. How can it stand it? Dr. Walter B. Cannon, of the Harvard Medical School, explained it. He said “Most people have the idea that the heart is working all the time. As a matter of fact, there is a definite rest period after each contraction. When beating at a moderate rate of seventy pulses per minute, the heart is actually working only nine hours out of the twenty-four. In the aggregate its rest periods total a full fifteen hours per day.
Dale Carnegie

Act enthusiastic and you become enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Enthusiasm

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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Bravery, Courage

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 tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Goodness, Kindness, Being True to Yourself, Perseverance, Excellence, Action, Virtue, Things, Little Things

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Work, Focus, Effectiveness

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.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Fear, Confidence, Busy, Procrastination, Anxiety, Doing, Accomplishment

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
Topics: Feelings, Habits, Habit

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
Topics: Doing Your Best, Critics, Art, Criticism, Work

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Speakers, Attention, Speaking

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Dale Carnegie

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Worry

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put the past together again. So let’s remember: Don’t try to saw sawdust.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: The Past, Past

Professor William James, the father of applied psychology, has been dead since 1910. But if he were alive today, and could hear this formula for facing the worst, he would heartily approve of it. How do I know that? Because he told his own students: “Be willing to have it so… Be willing to have it so,” he said, because “…acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Criticism, Courage, Critics, Understanding, Fools, Foolishness

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Planning, Preparation

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves—before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.
Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Success, Resolve, Enthusiasm, Endurance, Perseverance, Passion

I’ve found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Mind

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Enthusiasm

Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
Dale Carnegie

You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Charm, People, Friendship, Business, Friends and Friendship, Courage

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I’ll tell you their philosophy of life.
Dale Carnegie
Topics: Science, Philosophy, Philosophers

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
Topics: Living Well, Unhappiness

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