Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Grenville Kleiser (Canadian Author)

Grenville Kleiser (1868–1935) was a Canadian-American author known for his contributions to the self-help and personal development genres.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Kleiser attended schools in Toronto and later pursued higher education in the United States. He graduated from Yale and became an influential teacher, primarily focusing on oratory and communication skills. As an educator, he developed a deep understanding of the power of words and their impact on people’s lives.

Kleiser dedicated much of his life to producing books that would inspire and empower individuals to improve their communication skills and lead more fulfilling lives. His early works covered various topics, including public speaking, effective communication, self-confidence, and personal development. He was also a popular motivational speaker on personal growth, effective communication, and positive thinking, earning him a reputation as one of the pioneers of the self-help movement.

Kleiser’s most famous book, Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases (1917,) is a collection of carefully selected phrases that have been widely used by students, writers, and speakers around the world. Other notable works include How to Speak in Public (1915,) Inspiration and Ideals (1917,) Talks on Talking (1920,) and The World’s Great Sermons: Masterpieces of Pulpit Oratory and Biographical Sketches (1917.)

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You can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Vision, Foresight, Forethought

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Knowledge, Compassion, Success, Humor, Kindness, Thought, Serenity, People, Life, Depression

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Self-reliance, Confidence

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress there is disintegration. Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worth while.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Progress

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds. Know that you can do what ought to be done. Improve your plans. Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Value of Time, Time Management, Goals, Achievements

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Good

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results. Acquire the habit of substituting positive ideas for negative ones, and gradually your life will become more and more successful.
—Grenville Kleiser

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Work

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Happiness, Service, Helpfulness, Goodwill, Giving, Kindness

As we are now living in an eternity, the time to be happy is today.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Happiness

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it.
—Grenville Kleiser

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Time Management, Value of Time

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Judgement, Meditation

To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Problems

Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest and severe in your self-appraisal. Learn the art of learning, and you are well on the way to achievement. True greatness is reflective, not assertive.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Truth

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Perseverance, Luck, Endurance, Fortune, Idleness, Habits, Resolve, Work

Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring … If you are willing, great things are possible to you.
—Grenville Kleiser

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
—Grenville Kleiser
Topics: Character

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