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.

  Russell Conwell

  Sea, Mountain, Backyards

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• 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 Conwell

  Journey, Backyards, Lucky

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

  Russell Conwell

  Mean, Greatness, Deeds

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• 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

  Men, Philadelphia, Wish

  Russell Conwell (2007). “Acres of Diamonds (Business Success Edition)”, p.50, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• 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

  Prayer, Men, Agency

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• 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

  Inspirational, Reach Out, Our Lives

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• 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

  Men, Good Man, Wealth

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

  Russell Conwell

  Cutting, Garden, Asks

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• 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

  Smile, Funny Inspirational, Funny Life

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• 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

  Success, Levels, Matter

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• There is wealth within the sound of your voice.

  Russell Conwell

  Voice, Sound, Wealth

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

  Russell Conwell

  United States, Remember, Poor

  Russell Conwell (2013). “Acres of Diamonds: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Begin where you are and what you are.

  Russell Conwell

  Where You Are

  "Acres of Diamonds". Book by Russell H. Conwell, p. 59, 1915.

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• 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.

  Russell Conwell

  Mean, Greatness, Office

  Russell Conwell (2013). “Acres of Diamonds: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Russell Conwell

  Honesty, Men, Eight

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• 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

  Money, Men, Hands

  Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925

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

  Russell Conwell

  Money, Ambitious, Ought

  Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925

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

  Russell Conwell

  Love Is, Earth, Lovers

  Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925

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