Russell Conwell Quotes

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

There is wealth within the sound of your voice.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Begin where you are and what you are.

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.