Grenville Kleiser Quotes - Page 3

Actions are destiny's pen.

Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.

To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not.

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

Your mind grows through use.

If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.

A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.