Top 60 Grenville Kleiser Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Grenville Kleiser

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2. “By the time you learn the rules of life, you’re too old to play the game.”

— Grenville Kleiser

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

— Grenville Kleiser

4. “Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.”

— Grenville Kleiser

5. “You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.”

— Grenville Kleiser

6. “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

7. “Church members are either pillars or caterpillars. The pillars hold up the church, and the caterpillars just crawl in and out.”

— Grenville Kleiser

8. “Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.”

— Grenville Kleiser

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

— Grenville Kleiser

10. “The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.”

— Grenville Kleiser

11. “There is a reciprocal influence between thought and language. What we think molds the words we use, and the words we use react upon our thoughts.”

— Grenville Kleiser

12. “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

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

— Grenville Kleiser

14. “Better untaught than ill-taught.”

— Grenville Kleiser

15. “Let your intentions be good – embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds – and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve.”

— Grenville Kleiser

16. “To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematician has found it or not.”

— Grenville Kleiser

17. “Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it.”

— Grenville Kleiser

18. “A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.”

— Grenville Kleiser

19. “The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.”

— Grenville Kleiser

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

— Grenville Kleiser

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

— Grenville Kleiser

22. “The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.”

— Grenville Kleiser

23. “A word to the wise isn’t as good as a word from the wise.”

— Grenville Kleiser

24. “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

25. “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

26. “A woman’s heart is much like the moon, always changing but always has a man in it.”

— Grenville Kleiser

27. “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

28. “The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.”

— Grenville Kleiser

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

— Grenville Kleiser

30. “Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.”

— Grenville Kleiser

31. “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

32. “The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your personal character.”

— Grenville Kleiser

33. “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

34. “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

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

— Grenville Kleiser

36. “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.”

— Grenville Kleiser

37. “If you are willing, great things are possible to you.”

— Grenville Kleiser

38. “The choice word, the correct phrase, are instruments that may reach the heart, and awake the soul if they fall upon the ear in melodious cadence; but if the utterance be harsh and discordant they fail to interest, fall upon deaf ears, and are as barren as seed sown on fallow ground.”

— Grenville Kleiser

39. “Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.”

— Grenville Kleiser

40. “Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.”

— Grenville Kleiser

41. “The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.”

— Grenville Kleiser

42. “Death is God’s way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.”

— Grenville Kleiser

43. “You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.”

— Grenville Kleiser

44. “Actions are destiny’s pen.”

— Grenville Kleiser

45. “When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object.”

— Grenville Kleiser

46. “You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body – by judicious, daily exercise.”

— Grenville Kleiser

47. “A rumor is like a check – never endorse it till you’re sure it’s genuine.”

— Grenville Kleiser

48. “Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.”

— Grenville Kleiser

49. “You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.”

— Grenville Kleiser

50. “The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge, and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.”

— Grenville Kleiser