Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Russell Conwell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Russell Conwell.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Russell Herman Conwell was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, author, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture, "Acres of Diamonds". He was born in South Worthington, Massachusetts.

American - Writer | February 15, 1843 - December 6, 1925

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Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Russell Conwell

Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

Russell Conwell

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

Russell Conwell

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

Russell Conwell

Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.

Russell Conwell

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

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So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

Russell Conwell

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Russell Conwell

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.

Russell Conwell

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

Russell Conwell

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Russell Conwell

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.

Russell Conwell

There is wealth within the sound of your voice.

Russell Conwell

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.

Russell Conwell

Begin where you are and what you are.

Russell Conwell

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Russell Conwell