Dale Carnegie Quotes

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

I would just say that I have high expecations for myself.

I went from thinking I could be a manager to thinking I could do something much bigger than that.

That's the type of person I am - I always want to do better.

I knew myself. I knew where I wanted to go in life. I wanted to be the very best I could be in whatever I pursued.

I want to keep getting better and better.

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.

He who follows another will never overtake him

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

What separates us is that we expect to be great.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.

Accept yourself and expect more from yourself.

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

I'm going to try to keep getting better.

The world is divided into those who want to become someone and those who want to accomplish something.

If I can be right 75 per cent of the time I shall come up to the fullest measure of my hopes.

If you succeed at most of your activities, your goals are set much too low.