Dale Carnegie

The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

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

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

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

In today’’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

That’s how we do it… we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

FEAR has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Some people do really find fault like there’s a reward for it.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.

I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

I gave up the guitar in 1965. Didn’t want to see a guitar. I’d go out and get drunk. When I came out of the heart surgery, the doc said, “Promise me you’ll work hard.” I said, “I thought working hard is what got me here.” He said, “No, working is what will keep you alive.”

You are remembered for the rules you break.