Dale Carnegie Quotes

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

My college experience was like everyone else's. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people that I'm so thankful and appreciative for.

The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself? Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.

If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve

Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!

To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.

Obviously, throughout my career, I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time. When I look at the work that I've done, it's always very indicative of where I was in my life at the moment.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

The only way to change consciousness and the world around us is to start with yourself.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

You need to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.

If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.