Dale Carnegie Quotes

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.

The struggle to make people understand the need for change is over.

I can't really change Nashville.

Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Don't try to steer the river.

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

You have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.

It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.

We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.