Dale Carnegie Quotes

If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.

I have two choices: Sit at home and feel sorry for myself, or make lemonade out of lemons.

When life hands you melons, eat them.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.