The quotations of

Dale Carnegie

American writer and lecturer

1888–1955

16 quotes, most often on Happiness and Fear. Part of the Entrepreneurs collection.

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.
- Work
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Happiness
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.
- Sleep
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.
- Friendship
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.
- Faith
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.
- Happiness
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.
- Fear
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
- Happiness
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
From Dale Carnegie’s Scrapbook, ed. Dorothy Carnegie, as cited in Words of Wisdom, William Safire & Leonard Safir, Simon and Schuster (reprint, 1990), p. 87
- Risk
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
- Success
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.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
- Art
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936).
- Debate
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
- Courage
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8: How I Conquered Worry
- Fear
- Time

Often credited to Dale Carnegie

Quotes often credited to Dale Carnegie that were said or written by someone else.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach1830–1916Often credited to Dale Carnegie
- Debate

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