Words matter. These are the best George Matthew Adams Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don’t care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others.
Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out – spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends – there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless – be unhappy – and die a bankrupt in soul.
It’s marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.
No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.
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.
It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.
People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn’t hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.
No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
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.
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.
