George Matthew Adams Quotes

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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.

George Matthew Adams
No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

George Matthew Adams
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.

George Matthew Adams
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.

George Matthew Adams
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.

George Matthew Adams
It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

George Matthew Adams
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.

George Matthew Adams
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

George Matthew Adams
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.

George Matthew Adams
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.

George Matthew Adams
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.

George Matthew Adams
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.

George Matthew Adams