Quotes from George Matthew Adams

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!

If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away.... Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.