GRENVILLE KLEISER

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.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.

America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote.

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.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.

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.

Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done.

The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.

Your mind grows through use.

A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.

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 worthwhile.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But unless the idealist is brave and has the courage to face the truth, his idealism creates nothing.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.

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.