Conwell Quotes & Sayings

when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws rather than our power and potential; when you leverage all of that to sap our money and our time - that moves the rudder of the world. It steers humanity toward conservatism and walls and the narrow interests of men, and it keeps us adrift in waters where women's safety and humanity are secondary to men's pleasure and convenience. I — Lindy West

Begin where you are and what you are. — Russell H. Conwell

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

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

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense. — Bill Jay

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

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires. — Eknath Easwaran

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian. — Paul Keating

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

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

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian. — Charles Grandison Finney

It is easy to raise a laugh, but dangerous, for it is the greatest test of an orator's control of his audience to be able to land them again on the solid earth of sober thinking. — Russell H. Conwell

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it. — Simon Callow

It took everything I had to try to convince myself that I wasn't falling for you, Tate. Every single time I was around you, the things I would feel terrified me. I had gone six years thinking I had control of my life and my heart and that nothing could ever hurt me again. But when we were together, there were moments I didn't care if I ever hurt again, because being with you almost felt worth the potential pain. Every time I began to feel that way, I would just push you farther away out of guilt and fear. I felt like I didn't deserve you. I didn't deserve happiness at all, because I'd taken it away from the only two people I had ever loved. — Colleen Hoover

Whenever your foundational beliefs about the goodness and justice of God are examined, and the answers produced are not what you yourself have believed about God, there will be an emotional reaction. — Thomas F. Booher

Do you ever see a man who struts around altogether too large to notice an ordinary working mechanic? Do you think he is great?
He is nothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his big feet.
There is no greatness there. — Russell H. Conwell

The sun loves to be eclipsed. — Marty Rubin

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are, in Philadelphia, now. — Russell H. Conwell

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means. — Russell Conwell

True greatness is often unrecognized. — Russell H. Conwell

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 H. Conwell

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 H. Conwell

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

Plagueis pressed his right hand to the right side of his neck to discover that a disk had made off with a considerable hunk of his jawbone and neck, and in its cruel passing had severed his trachea and several blood vessels. — James Luceno

In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit. — Alton Tobey

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

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

You cannot trust a man with your money who cannot take care of his own. — Russell H. Conwell

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 is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. — Russell Conwell

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

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds. — Russell Conwell

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. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia. — Russell H. Conwell

There is wealth within the sound of your voice. — Russell Conwell