Grenville Kleiser Quotes

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

You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

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

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.

Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

Better untaught than ill-taught.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

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

Actions are destiny's pen.

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done.

This is the time to speak the word of appreciation.

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.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it

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.

Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.

Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition.

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.

Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

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

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

Cultivate the giving habit as you do the saving habit.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

The choice word, the correct phrase, are instruments that may reach the heart, and awake the soul if they fall upon the ear in melodious cadence; but if the utterance be harsh and discordant they fail to interest, fall upon deaf ears, and are as barren as seed sown on fallow ground.

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.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.

The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.

The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

Idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.

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

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.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. 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.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.