That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one’s happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Enjoyment, Relaxation
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.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Support, Encouragement
It’s what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Life
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Carpe-diem
If we had no regard for others’ feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Service, Kindness, Giving
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.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Support, Encouragement
There is no such thing as a “self-made” man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Encouragement, Helpfulness
Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random, write to one, dine with one, visit one, or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Friendship
To praise is an investment in happiness.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Praise
Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Value of Time, Work, Time Management
What you think means more than anything else in your life.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Optimism
There is no such thing as a self-made man. We are made up of thousands of others. Every one who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Success
The organized person … makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Time Management, Value of Time
If we would keep filling our minds with the picture of happy things ahead, many worries and anxieties, and perhaps ill health, would naturally melt away … Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Worry, Managing Worries
No one can work and achieve efficiently with a pack of worries on his back. People who enjoy life and radiate their happiness fear nothing. Fear never has led, and never will lead, a man victoriously in any phase of life … . A cheerful frame of mind, reenforced by relaxation, which in itself banishes fatigue, is the medicine that puts all Ghosts of fear on the run! So, get fun out of what you do—and you will do much, and be glad that you are alive.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Worry, Relaxation, Fear, Anxiety
There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can’t destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Competition
You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate.
—George Matthew Adams
Topics: Knowledge
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