Quotes from Dale Carnegie

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.

A person's toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one's neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a conversation.

People work for money but go the extra mile for praise, recognition, and rewards.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Try your best to develop an ability to let others look into your head and heart. Learn to make your thoughts, your ideas, clear to others, individually, in groups, in public. You will find, as you improve in your effort to do this, that you—your real self—are making an impression, an impact, on people such as you never made before.

No matter how "important" or successful you are, no one is immune to the pleasure of someone taking interest in you as a person

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use

But the attention he gave me, his appreciation of what I said, even when I said it badly, was extraordinary. You've no idea what it meant to be listened to like that.

One of the 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.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.