Author: George Matthew Adams

Quotes

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

- George Matthew Adams

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

- George Matthew Adams

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

- George Matthew Adams

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

- George Matthew Adams

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