Quotes About Conwell

#1. True greatness is often unrecognized.

Russell H. Conwell

#2. The world eclipses and it's just her and him. No it's just her eyes and his soul. Her eyes expose and violate him, she turns him inside out. Then, her eyes drop him like a boring toy.

Stefan Emunds

#3. Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he is great?
He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his big feet.
There is no greatness there.

Russell H. Conwell

#4. Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are, in Philadelphia, now.

Russell H. Conwell

#5. 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.

Russell Conwell

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

Russell Conwell

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

Russell H. Conwell

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

Russell Conwell

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

Russell Conwell

#10. Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

Grace Napolitano

#11. There is wealth within the sound of your voice.

Russell Conwell

#12. 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.

Russell Conwell

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

Russell Conwell

#14. 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.

Russell Conwell

#15. 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.

Russell Conwell

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

Russell Conwell

#17. more than 90 percent of the female runners come home with a buckle, while 50 percent of the men come up with an excuse. Not even Ken Chlouber can explain the sky-high female finishing rate, but he can damn well exploit it: "All my pacers are women," Chlouber says. "They get the job done.

Christopher McDougall

#18. All novels are impossible.
We would not wish to read them if they were not. Can you imagine how dull a tale would be if it were completely founded in reality.
I declare implausibility a must if the reader is not to be bored to tears.

Caitlin Williams

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

Russell Conwell

#20. 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. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.

Russell H. Conwell

#21. It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.

Sigfried Giedion

#22. It is easy to raise a laugh, but dangerous, for it is the greatest test of an orator's control of his audience to be able to land them again on the solid earth of sober thinking.

Russell H. Conwell

#23. 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.

Russell H. Conwell

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

Russell Conwell

#25. That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.

Ruth Reichl

#26. You cannot trust a man with your money who cannot take care of his own.

Russell H. Conwell

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

Russell Conwell

#28. Begin where you are and what you are.

Russell H. Conwell

#29. Family is the most important thing. Family starts with your wife and your kids.

Kyle Petty

#30. I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the gospel on the street corners and at the ends of earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.

John Gresham Machen

#31. 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!

Russell Conwell

#32. I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.

Marla Maples