Dale Carnegie

A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people.

Dale Carnegie

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don’t have to show it off. The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Dale Carnegie

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

Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don’t you do it?

Dale Carnegie

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas’s, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

Dale Carnegie

Always avoid the acute angle.

Dale Carnegie

An animal rewarded for good behavior will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behavior.

Dale Carnegie

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Dale Carnegie

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Dale Carnegie

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie