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.

Dale Carnegie

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • True
  • Words
  • Moral

• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Good
  • Family
  • Interesting

• Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Good
  • Now
  • Embrace

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Voice
  • Looking
  • Conscience

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Taken

• I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Happy
  • Going
  • Leaves

• I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Help
  • Culture
  • Justice

• When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.

  

  Jake Epstein
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I'm fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk around all day dressed in a crinoline, I would.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Live
  • Past
  • Fashion

• Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.

  

  Pete du Pont
  • Done
  • America
  • House

• Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

  

  John Bytheway
  • Control
  • Courage
  • Curiosity

• Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Fool
  • Compromise

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

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Character
  • Control
  • Understanding