Dale Carnegie on Depression Quotes

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage."

"When we have some big problem, we are often too close to it to see it in its true perspective."

"Success in dealing with people depends on a sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint alongside your own."

"It is impossible to be worried and depressed while you are busy doing something that requires active planning and thinking."

"You can sing 'Home Sweet Home' even if you are living in a tent."

"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness."

"Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember 'Life is too short to be little'."

"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment."

"When life hands you a sour situation, do not despair; instead, use your ingenuity to turn that lemon into lemonade."

"Letting the other person save face is a vital skill; we should never trample on the feelings of others just to get our way."

"You cannot truly win an argument, for if you lose, you lose, and if you win by crushing the other person's ego, you have still lost the relationship."

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

"Unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealousy and envy."

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

"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire?"

"Count your blessings—not your troubles!"

"Do the thing you fear and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

"Every day is a new life to a wise man."

"Cooperate with the inevitable."

"Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw the mud, the other saw stars."

"Shut the iron doors on the past and the future. Live in day-tight compartments."

"Action is the best antidote to despair."

"A man without a smiling face must not open a shop."

"Don't try to saw sawdust."

"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."

"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep."

"Fill your mind with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope."

"Rest before you get tired."

"Don't cross your bridges until you come to them."

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."