Quotes from Dale Carnegie

Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.

When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Nobody kicks a dead dog

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.

Winning friends begins with friendliness.

A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.

The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today

Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book The Origin Of Species he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizing his conclusions.

there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .

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

The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work in the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

We are interested in others when they are interested in us.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.