Dale Carnegie Quotes

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they cannot help.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that's what they really need. They're misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen our resentment or our understanding and empathy. We can widen the gap between ourselves and others or lessen it.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

I can access emotions very easily.