Dale Carnegie citations

“Toute réussite, toute fortune, débute par une idée!”

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

“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.”

“Our thoughts make us what we are.”

“No matter what happens, always be yourself.”

“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.”

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”

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

“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.”

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

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

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

“If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.”

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

“… the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.”

“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”

“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”

“Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.”

“To be interesting, be interested.”

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”

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

“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”

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

“By far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.”

“Applause is a receipt, not a bill.”

“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.”

“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

“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?”