Grenville Kleiser
American author and speaker on self-improvement and public speaking, 1868-1953
18 quotes.
Quotes by Grenville Kleiser
- A nail is not driven to its head by a single stroke, nor is a habit formed by a single attempt.
- Attempt the great, pursue the great, and ultimately you will achieve the great.
- By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
- Every good thought you think adds to your mental resources and reserves.
- Grandeur of character is the effect of many habits.
- Greatness of life emanates from greatness of thought.
- Happiness is the product of habitual right thinking.
- Look for the best and highest things in life, and resolve to be an intelligent optimist.
- Make your resolutions so clear and firm that nothing can lure you from your chosen path of purpose and duty.
- Realize your inexhaustible power, then patiently apply it to a great and worthy purpose.
- Review each night what you have actually done during the day, and resolve to do still greater things.
- Seeming failure has many a time proved only a stepping-stone to real success.
- The best reward for work well done will be greater work and a larger sphere of usefulness.
- The greatest influence for good in the world is by means of personal example rather than through admonition and exhortation.
- The inner consciousness of work worthily attempted and well done is its own reward.
- There is no such thing as failure to one who makes it a lesson in wisdom.
- To be able to work and wait, knowing that right results inevitably follow right efforts, is a true sign of greatness.
- You were made to progress, to grow in power and influence, and to achieve some great and worthy purpose.