Quotes from Dale Carnegie

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?

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

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.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

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

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

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

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.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little.