Top 35 George Matthew Adams Quotes
#1. We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.
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#3. That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one's happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.
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#4. No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.
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#5. There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.
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#6. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.
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#7. No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Learn to keep the door shut, keep out of your mind and out of your world every element that seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view.
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#11. 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.
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#12. If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
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#13. A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation ... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
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#14. What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
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#15. 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.
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#16. It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
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#17. The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.
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#19. I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.
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#20. Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
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#22. He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life
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#23. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.
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#27. Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.
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#28. If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.
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#29. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
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#33. What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.
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#34. 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.
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#35. People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.
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