George Matthew Adams Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.”

“It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.”

“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.”

“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!”

“No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.”

“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.”

“Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.”

“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.”

“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.”