Grenville Kleiser Quotes

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• Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential.

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  Life, Opportunity, World

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

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  Inspirational, Today Is The Day, Achieve

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• 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.

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  Adversity, May, Littles

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

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  Successful, Men, Stones

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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

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  Life, Games, Play

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

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  Return, Good Thoughts

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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

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  Church, Pillars, Members

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• Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life . . . significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.

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  Heart, Today Is The Day, Long

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

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  Time, Done, Today

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

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  Life, Progress, Doe

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• 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.

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  Thankful, Gratitude, Grateful

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• New habits make new horizons. Silently and imperceptibly you are forming habits which will ultimately determine the degree of your happiness and success. Closely guard the quality of your thoughts, that they may lead to right habits and thence to right living. Recognize and use such supreme qualities as courage, faith, humility, loyalty, temperance, and integrity.

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  Loyalty, Integrity, Humility

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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

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  Work, Men, Worry

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• 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.

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  Life, Mind, May

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.

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  Inspirational, Success, Singleness Of Purpose

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• Thought rules mankind.

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  Mankind

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• 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. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power.

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  Perseverance, Determination, Thinking

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

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  Desire, Students, Study

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• 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.

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  Life, Medicine, Soul

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• 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

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  Love, Life, Family

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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

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  Stress, Thinking, Peaceful

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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

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  Yield, Mind, Plant

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

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  Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational

  "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

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

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  Life, Work, Views

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• 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.

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  Attitude, People, Feelings

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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