Quote

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

Grenville Kleiser

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Grenville Kleiser
Age: 67 †
Born: 1868
Born: January 1
Died: 1935
Died: January 1
Author
Writer
Assassins
Guard
Destructive
House
Thought
Mind
Vigilantly
Would
Burglars
Erroneous

More quotes by Grenville Kleiser

Image
This is the time to speak the word of appreciation.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
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
Image
Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
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
Image
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, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life . . . significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
Your mind grows through use.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
. . . 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.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
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.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise.
Grenville Kleiser
Image
Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
Grenville Kleiser