Top 300 Dale Carnegie Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Dale Carnegie

52. “Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away.”

— Dale Carnegie

53. “Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.”

— Dale Carnegie

54. “Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”

— Dale Carnegie

55. “Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”

— Dale Carnegie

56. “When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don’t keep putting off decisions.”

— Dale Carnegie

57. “Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.”

— Dale Carnegie

58. “Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.”

— Dale Carnegie

59. “Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.”

— Dale Carnegie

60. “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?”

— Dale Carnegie

61. “Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?”

— Dale Carnegie

62. “If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won’t cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.”

— Dale Carnegie

63. “Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.”

— Dale Carnegie

64. “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

65. “Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.’ That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.”

— Dale Carnegie

66. “Excitement radiates through your eyes, your face, your voice, your soul, and your whole personality.”

— Dale Carnegie

67. “If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

— Dale Carnegie

68. “The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.”

— Dale Carnegie

69. “One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to his opinion, to let him sustain his feeling of importance.”

— Dale Carnegie

70. “Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.”

— Dale Carnegie

71. “This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?”

— Dale Carnegie

72. “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.”

— Dale Carnegie

73. “Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint.”

— Dale Carnegie

74. “There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.”

— Dale Carnegie

75. “Let’s fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.”

— Dale Carnegie

76. “No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.”

— Dale Carnegie

77. “Each party should gain from the negotiation.”

— Dale Carnegie

78. “Great speakers are not born, they’re trained.”

— Dale Carnegie

79. “Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.”

— Dale Carnegie

80. “Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.”

— Dale Carnegie

81. “You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?”

— Dale Carnegie

82. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.”

— Dale Carnegie

83. “If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can’t be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?”

— Dale Carnegie

84. “Do things for others and you’ll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.”

— Dale Carnegie

85. “Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.”

— Dale Carnegie

86. “Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.”

— Dale Carnegie

87. “My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Dale Carnegie

89. “If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Dale Carnegie

90. “Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.”

— Dale Carnegie

91. “Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.”

— Dale Carnegie

92. “If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.”

— Dale Carnegie

93. “There is only one excuse for a speaker’s asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.”

— Dale Carnegie

94. “The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success.”

— Dale Carnegie

95. “We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.”

— Dale Carnegie

96. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”

— Dale Carnegie

97. “So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.”

— Dale Carnegie

98. “If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.”

— Dale Carnegie

99. “If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.”

— Dale Carnegie

100. “A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.”

— Dale Carnegie