Dale Carnegie (1888 – 1955) was a famous American writer and speaker, developed numerous courses in self-improvement, sales, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.
Explore our collection of Dale Carnegie Quotes to learn more about the psychology of this great man.
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
– Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie Quotes
1. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
2. “Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible.” – Dale Carnegie
3. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie
4. “The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.” – Dale Carnegie
5. “Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” – Dale Carnegie
6. “By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.” – Dale Carnegie
7. “To be interesting, be interested.” – Dale Carnegie
8. “The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.” – Dale Carnegie
9. “Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.” – Dale Carnegie
10. “Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.” – Dale Carnegie
11. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.” – Dale Carnegie
12. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” – Dale Carnegie
13. “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.” – Dale Carnegie
14.” Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.” – Dale Carnegie
15. “Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.” – Dale Carnegie
16. “You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.” – Dale Carnegie
17. “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.” – Dale Carnegie
18. “Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw the mud, the other saw stars.” – Dale Carnegie
19. “All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.” – Dale Carnegie
20. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” – Dale Carnegie
21. “Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.” – Dale Carnegie
22. “Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” – Dale Carnegie
23. “Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so.” – Dale Carnegie
24. “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” – Dale Carnegie
25. “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
26. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie
27. “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
28. “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
29. “Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.” – Dale Carnegie
30. “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
31. “A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.” – Dale Carnegie
32. “Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.” – Dale Carnegie
33. “The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” – Dale Carnegie
34. “One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.” – Dale Carnegie
35. “The expression one wears on one’s face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one’s back.” – Dale Carnegie
36. “Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember…Life is too short to be little.” – Dale Carnegie
37. “One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate.” – Dale Carnegie
38. “Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires.” – Dale Carnegie
39. “The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.” – Dale Carnegie
40. “Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.” – Dale Carnegie
41. “A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.” – Dale Carnegie
42. “Never be bothered by what people say, as long as you know in your heart you are right.” – Dale Carnegie
43. “If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.” – Dale Carnegie
44. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Dale Carnegie
45. “I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.” – Dale Carnegie
46. “There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors.” – Dale Carnegie
47. “Count your blessings—not your troubles!” – Dale Carnegie
48. “When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means—we have everything to gain!” – Dale Carnegie
49. “Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.” – Dale Carnegie
50. “The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.” – Dale Carnegie
51. “The world owes its progress to the men who have dared.” – Dale Carnegie
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